1. To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse. "Being better horsed, outrode
me." Shak.
2. To sit astride of; to bestride. Shak.
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
(Horse), v. i. To get on horseback. [Obs.] Shelton.
Horseback
(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-chestnut
(Horse`-chest"nut) n. (Bot.) (a) The large nutlike seed of a species of Æsculus 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
(Horse"-drench`) n.
1. A dose of physic for a horse. Shak.
2. The appliance by which the dose is administered.
Horsefish
(Horse"fish`) n. (Zoöl.) (a) The moonfish (Selene setipinnis). (b) The sauger.
Horseflesh
(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.
Horsefly
(Horse"fly`) n.; pl. Horseflies
1. (Zoöl.) Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidæ, 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. (Zoöl.) The horse tick or forest fly
