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A frame to hang clothes on.

A child's rocking-horse. Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross. Mother Goose.

To dismount. Tennyson.

A strong, active horse, of a middle size, said to have been originally from Ireland; an ambling nag. Johnson.

A soldier who serves in the light horse. See under 5th Light.

Drawn by one horse; having but a single horse; as, a one-horse carriage.

A mantis.

The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride.

A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck.

A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus.

One of an English breed of heavy draft horses believed to be descended largely from the horses used in war in the days of heavy armor. They are the largest of the British draft breeds, and have long hair on the back of the cannons and fetlocks. Brown or bay with white on the face and legs is now the commonest color.…

A horse, or a figure resembling a horse, behind which a hunter conceals himself from the game he is aiming to kill.

Stallion. [Obs.] Mortimer.

A stallion, esp. one kept for breeding.

To throw from a horse; to cause to dismount; also, to take a horse or horses from; as, to unhorse a rider; to unhorse a carriage. Cowper.

A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain.

A large mass of tough sinewy substance in the head of sperm whales, just above the upper jaw and extending in streaks into the junk above it. It resembles blubber, but contains no oil. Also, the part of the head in which it occurs.

Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action.

The artificial motion or carriage of a horse.

(Orcynus thynnus), common in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, is called in New England the horse mackerel; the tunny. [Written also albacore.]