Part 5395

<h1>Horse</h1> <Xpage=707>

<hw>Horse</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Horsed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Horsing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[AS. <ets>horsion</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse.</def> "Being better <i>horsed</i>, outrode me."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To sit astride of; to bestride.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To cover, as a mare; -- said of the male.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To take or carry on the back; <as>as, the keeper, <ex>horsing</ex> a deer</as>.</def>

<i>S. Butler.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.</def>

<h1>Horse</h1> <Xpage=707>

<hw>Horse</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To get on horseback.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shelton.</i>

<h1>Horseback</h1> <Xpage=707>

<hw>Horse"back`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The back of a horse.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An extended ridge of sand, gravel, and bowlders, in a half-stratified condition.</def>

<i>Agassiz.</i>

<cs><col>On horseback</col>, <cd>on the back of a horse; mounted or riding on a horse or horses; in the saddle.</cd></cs>

<blockquote>The long journey was to be performed <b>on horseback</b>. <i>Prescott.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Horse-chestnut</h1> <Xpage=707>

<hw>Horse`-chest"nut</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The large nutlike seed of a species of <spn>\'92sculus</spn> (<spn>\'92. Hippocastanum</spn>), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>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 <altname>buckeyes</altname>.</def>

<h1>Horse-drench</h1> <Xpage=707>

<hw>Horse"-drench`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A dose of physic for a horse.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The appliance by which the dose is administred.</def>

<h1>Horsefish</h1> <Xpage=707>

<hw>Horse"fish`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The moonfish (<spn>Selene setipinnis</spn>).</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The sauger.</def>

<h1>Horseflesh</h1> <Xpage=707>

<hw>Horse"flesh`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The flesh of horses.</def>