Word Finder - horse

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Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.

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Equipment with legs.

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Type of equipment.

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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.

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The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.

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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 Variations of basketball#H-O-R-S-E).

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(among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.

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(among students) horseplay; tomfoolery

The horse stood still.

The horse stumbled, and his rider was thrown heavily to the ground.

Katie asked her about the progress on the horse ranch.

As she swung into the saddle, the horse sidestepped.

His horse, having galloped up to a campfire that was smoldering in the morning light, stopped suddenly, and Petya fell heavily on to the wet ground.

The horse was lamed on a rock.

He's a big horse, but I couldn't make him carry the two of us in that terrain.

He got down from his horse and very gently took the little ones up in his big warm hands.

The night was getting chilly and the warmth from the horse was welcome.

The wounded leg soon became so much worse that the horse was suspended from a beam.

He walked back to his horse and untied something from the saddle.

A horse and rider could cover more distance in a day that the mules could pulling the heavy freight wagons.

He had nearly finished this last task when a low growling was suddenly heard and the horse began to jump around and kick viciously with his heels.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

Gently disengaging himself, the prince spurred his horse and rode down the avenue at a gallop.

He turned to his horse and mounted in one smooth movement.

He swung up on his horse and tipped his hat to her before riding into the desert.

As soon as I see the light, I will mount my horse and ride out to give the alarm.

Now get on my horse.

They could not see the speeding horse, but they heard the clatter of its hoofs far down the road, and they understood the cry, "Up! up! and defend yourselves!"

The lieutenant colonel of hussars smiled beneath his mustache at the orderly's tone, dismounted, gave his horse to a dispatch runner, and approached Bolkonski with a slight bow.

Another prodded his horse with the butt end of a musket, and Pierre, bending over his saddlebow and hardly able to control his shying horse, galloped ahead of the soldiers where there was a free space.

Felipa kicked her horse into a lope and rode up beside him.

She turned the horse and followed his mule up a dune, reining in at his side.

He rode as if he were part of the horse, his lean body swaying with the stride of the graceful animal.

He touched his hat and turned the horse toward the barn.

He wasn't about to donate any fodder to the other horse in the race.

I have a horse named Ed.

As she peered through the soft gray light not a house of any sort was visible near the station, nor was any person in sight; but after a while the child discovered a horse and buggy standing near a group of trees a short distance away.

Rostov dismounted, gave his horse to the orderly, and followed Alpatych to the house, questioning him as to the state of affairs.

So help him with his farm, start your horse ranch.

Josh vaulted the fence and raced up the hill, only to stop in surprise as Alex emerged from the trees riding a horse colored enough like Ed to be his twin.

Together they watched as Alex put the horse down the hill, his body moving gracefully with the motion of the horse.

He swung the horse around and headed down the hill toward the creek.

Their weapons weren't stunners, the laser weapons capable of incapacitating a horse with one glancing shot.

It's like comparing a horse to a gazelle.

The third time that he thrust out the weapon there was a loud roar and a fall, and suddenly at his feet appeared the form of a great red bear, which was nearly as big as the horse and much stronger and fiercer.

So he spurred his horse to ride to their aid.

One person with a horse and a cotton gin could process as much as fifty people without the gin.

There was a hopeless look in the dull eye that I could not help noticing, and then, as I was thinking where I had seen that horse before, she looked full at me and said, 'Black Beauty, is that you?'

The general mounted a horse a Cossack had brought him.

In the dark Petya recognized his own horse, which he called "Karabakh" though it was of Ukranian breed, and went up to it.

Kutuzov rode to Dobroe on his plump little white horse, followed by an enormous suite of discontented generals who whispered among themselves behind his back.

When they turned around, Alex was still on the horse.

The men cheered as he turned the horse and rode it out of the corral.

Alex pointed at a white horse prancing along the fence.

She gripped his waist as he turned the horse around and headed back toward the hacienda.

Even Mrs. Reynolds pitched in with some stuffed animals - a giraffe and horse.

The rear end of the car danced sideways, bouncing like a horse kicking up its heels.

Anyway, I've never ridden a horse before.