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3. To cover, as a mare; -- said of the male.

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

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

Horse, v. i. To get on horseback. [Obs.] Shelton.

Horse"back` (?), n. 1. The back of a horse.

2. An extended ridge of sand, gravel, and bowlders, in a half-stratified condition. Agassiz.

On horseback, on the back of a horse; mounted or riding on a horse or horses; in the saddle.

The long journey was to be performed on horseback.

Prescott.

Horse`-chest"nut (?), n. (Bot.) (a) The large nutlike seed of a species of ∆sculus (∆. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name. (b) The tree itself, which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American species are called buckeyes.

Horse"-drench` (?), n. 1. A dose of physic for a horse. Shak.

2. The appliance by which the dose is administered.

Horse"fish` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) (a) The moonfish (Selene setipinnis). (b) The sauger.

Horse"flesh` (?), n. 1. The flesh of horses.

The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day.

Bacon.

2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. [Colloq.]

Horseflesh ore (Min.), a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on fresh facture.

Horse"fly` (?), n.; pl. Horseflies (&?;). 1. (Zoˆl.) Any dipterous fly of the family TabanidÊ, that stings horses, and sucks their blood.

Of these flies there are numerous species, both in Europe and America. They have a large proboscis with four sharp lancets for piercing the skin. Called also breeze fly. See Illust. under Diptera, and Breeze fly.

2. (Zoˆl.) The horse tick or forest fly (Hippobosca).

Horse"foot` (?), n.; pl. Horsefeet (#). 1. (Bot.) The coltsfoot.

2. (Zoˆl.) The Limulus or horseshoe crab.

Horse" Guards` (?). (Mil.) A body of cavalry so called; esp., a British regiment, called the Royal Horse Guards, which furnishes guards of state for the sovereign.

The Horse Guards, a name given to the former headquarters of the commander in chief of the British army, at Whitehall in London.

Horse"hair` (?), n. A hair of a horse, especially one from the mane or tail; the hairs of the mane or tail taken collectively; a fabric or tuft made of such hairs.

Horsehair worm (Zoˆl.), the hair worm or gordius.

Horse"head` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The silver moonfish (Selene vomer).