horse

A common horse

Meanings

Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
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.
The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
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 ).
The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
Horseplay; tomfoolery.
Heroin .

To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)
To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
To get on horseback.
To sit astride of; to bestride.
To copulate with (a mare).
To take or carry on the back.
To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to flog.
To urge at work tyrannically.
To charge for work before it is finished.

From Middle English horse, hors, from Old English hors, from Proto-West Germanic *hross, from Proto-Germanic *hrussą, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-. Cognate with North Frisian hors, West Frisian hoars, Dutch ros, hors, German Ross, Danish hors, Swedish russ, hors, Icelandic hross, hors.
From Middle English horsen, from Old English horsian and ġehorsian, from the noun (see above).
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