Usually means: Large mammal used for riding.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. horse: Merriam-Webster
  2. horse: Collins English Dictionary
  3. horse: Vocabulary.com
  4. Horse, horse: Wordnik
  5. horse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. H.O.R.S.E, HORSE, Horse, horse: Wiktionary
  7. horse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. horse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. horse: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Horse, horse: Dictionary.com
  11. horse: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. horse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. H.O.R.S.E, HORSE (poker), HORSE, Horse (disambiguation), Horse (game), Horse (geology), Horse (musician), Horse (song), Horse (zodiac), Horse, The Horse (poem), The Horse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Horse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. horse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. horse: Rhymezone
  17. horse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. horse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Horse: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  20. Horse, Horse, Horse, Horse: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. horse: FreeDictionary.org
  22. horse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. horse: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. horse: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. horse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  26. horse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  27. horse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  2. Horse: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Horse: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. horse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. horse: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. horse: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. HORSE: Acronym Finder
  5. horse: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Horse: Easton Bible
  2. Horse: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. horse, horse: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Horse: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. horse: The Folk File
  4. H.O.R.S.E, Horse, Horse, The Horse: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Horse: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See horsed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
noun:  Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
noun:  (zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
noun:  (military, sometimes uncountable) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
noun:  A component of certain games.
noun:  (chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
noun:  (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
noun:  (slang) A large and sturdy person.
noun:  (historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
noun:  Equipment with legs.
noun:  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.
noun:  A frame with legs, used to support something.
noun:  (nautical) Type of equipment.
noun:  A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
noun:  A breastband for a leadsman.
noun:  An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
noun:  A jackstay.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (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 on WikipediaWikipedia).
noun:  (uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
noun:  (prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
noun:  (dated, slang, among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
noun:  (dated, slang, among students) Horseplay; tomfoolery.
noun:  (poker slang) A player who has been staked, i.e. another player has paid for their buy-in and claims a percentage of any winnings.
verb:  (intransitive) Synonym of horse around
verb:  (transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.
verb:  (transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
verb:  (obsolete) To get on horseback.
verb:  To sit astride of; to bestride.
verb:  (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
verb:  To take or carry on the back.
verb:  To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
verb:  (by extension) To flog.
verb:  (transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
verb:  (informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To urge at work tyrannically.
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To charge for work before it is finished.
verb:  (dated, slang) To cheat at schoolwork by means of a translation or other illegitimate aid.
noun:  (slang) Heroin (drug).
noun:  A poker variant consisting of five different poker variants, with the rules changing from one variant to the next after every hand.
noun:  The seventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
noun:  Alternative spelling of horse (“variant of basketball”) [A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.]

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