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Horse

A large hoofed mammal (Equus caballus) having a short coat, a long mane, and a long tail, domesticated since ancient times and used for riding and for drawing or carrying loads.

Nag

To annoy by constant scolding, complaining, or urging.

Horse

An adult male horse; a stallion.

Nag

To torment persistently, as with anxiety or pain.

Horse

Any of various equine mammals, such as the wild Asian species Przewalski's horse or certain extinct forms related ancestrally to the modern horse.
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Nag

To scold, complain, or find fault constantly
Nagging at the children.

Horse

A frame or device, usually with four legs, used for supporting or holding.

Nag

To be a constant source of anxiety or annoyance
The half-remembered quotation nagged at my mind.

Horse

(Sports) A vaulting horse.

Nag

One who nags.
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Horse

(Slang) Heroin.

Nag

An old or worn-out horse.

Horse

Often horses Horsepower
A muscle car with 400 horses under the hood.

Nag

(Slang) A racehorse.

Horse

Mounted soldiers; cavalry
A squadron of horse.
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Nag

(Archaic) A small saddle horse or pony.

Horse

A block of rock interrupting a vein and containing no minerals.

Nag

A small horse; a pony.

Horse

A large block of displaced rock that is caught along a fault.

Nag

An old, useless horse.

Horse

To provide with a horse.

Nag

A paramour.

Horse

To haul or hoist energetically
"Things had changed little since the days of the pyramids, with building materials being horsed into place by muscle power" (Henry Allen).

Nag

Someone or something that nags.

Horse

To be in heat. Used of a mare.

Nag

A repeated complaint or reminder.

Horse

Of or relating to a horse
A horse blanket.

Nag

A persistent, bothersome thought or worry.

Horse

Mounted on horses
Horse guards.

Nag

(ambitransitive) To repeatedly remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters.
Anyone would think that I nagged at you, Amanda! (From Amanda! by Robin Klein)

Horse

Drawn or operated by a horse.

Nag

To bother with persistent thoughts or memories.
The notion that he forgot something nagged him the rest of the day.

Horse

Larger or cruder than others in the same category
Horse pills.

Nag

To bother or disturb persistently in any way.
A nagging pain in his left knee
A nagging north wind

Horse

A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.

Nag

A small horse; a pony; hence, any horse, especially one that is of inferior breeding or useless.

Horse

Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.

Nag

A paramour; - in contempt.

Horse

(zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.

Nag

A person who nags, especially habitually; called also nagger.

Horse

Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field.
All the King's horses and all the King's men, couldn't put Humpty together again.

Nag

To tease in a petty way; to scold habitually; to annoy; to fret pertinaciously.

Horse

A component of certain games.

Nag

Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault

Horse

(slang) A large and sturdy person.
Every linebacker they have is a real horse.

Nag

An old or over-worked horse

Horse

(historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

Nag

Bother persistently with trivial complaints;
She nags her husband all day long

Horse

Equipment with legs.

Nag

Worry persistently;
Nagging concerns and doubts

Horse

In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.
She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse.

Nag

Remind or urge constantly;
She nagged to take a vacation

Horse

A frame with legs, used to support something.
A clothes horse; a sawhorse

Horse

(nautical) Type of equipment.

Horse

A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.

Horse

A breastband for a leadsman.

Horse

An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.

Horse

A jackstay.

Horse

(mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.

Horse

(US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E).

Horse

(uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.

Horse

(prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.

Horse

A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.

Horse

Horseplay; tomfoolery.

Horse

(slang) Heroin drug.

Horse

(intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)

Horse

(transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.

Horse

(transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.

Horse

(obsolete) To get on horseback.

Horse

To sit astride of; to bestride.

Horse

(of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).

Horse

To take or carry on the back.

Horse

To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.

Horse

(by extension) To flog.

Horse

(transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.

Horse

(informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.

Horse

To urge at work tyrannically.

Horse

To charge for work before it is finished.

Horse

A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (Equus caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes.

Horse

The male of the genus Equus, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.

Horse

Mounted soldiery; cavalry; - used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; - distinguished from foot.
The armies were appointed, consisting of twenty-five thousand horse and foot.

Horse

A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.

Horse

A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

Horse

Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby.

Horse

A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse - said of a vein - is to divide into branches for a distance.

Horse

A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination; - called also trot, pony, Dobbin.

Horse

Heroin.

Horse

Horsepower.

Horse

To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse.

Horse

To sit astride of; to bestride.

Horse

To mate with (a mare); - said of the male.

Horse

To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer.

Horse

To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.

Horse

To get on horseback.

Horse

Solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

Horse

A padded gymnastic apparatus on legs

Horse

Troops trained to fight on horseback;
500 horse led the attack

Horse

A framework for holding wood that is being sawed

Horse

A chessman in the shape of a horse's head; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)

Horse

Provide with a horse or horses

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