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7. (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.
8. (Naut.) (a) See Footrope, a. (b) A breastband for a leadsman. (c) An iron bar for a sheet traveler
to slide upon. (d) A jackstay. W. C. Russell. Totten.
Horse is much used adjectively and in composition to signify of, or having to do with, a horse or horses,
like a horse, etc.; as, horse collar, horse dealer or horsedealer, horsehoe, horse jockey; and hence,
often in the sense of strong, loud, coarse, etc.; as, horselaugh, horse nettle or horse-nettle, horseplay,
horse ant, etc.
Black horse, Blood horse, etc. See under Black, etc. — Horse aloes, caballine aloes. — Horse
ant (Zoöl.), a large ant (Formica rufa); — called also horse emmet. — Horse artillery, that portion
of the artillery in which the cannoneers are mounted, and which usually serves with the cavalry; flying
artillery. — Horse balm (Bot.), a strong-scented labiate plant having large leaves and yellowish flowers.
— Horse bean (Bot.), a variety of the English or Windsor bean grown for feeding horses. — Horse
boat, a boat for conveying horses and cattle, or a boat propelled by horses. — Horse bot. (Zoöl.)
See Botfly, and Bots. — Horse box, a railroad car for transporting valuable horses, as hunters. [Eng.]
— Horse breaker or trainer, one employed in subduing or training horses for use. — Horse car.
(a) A railroad car drawn by horses. See under Car. (b) A car fitted for transporting horses. — Horse
cassia (Bot.), a leguminous plant (Cassia Javanica), bearing long pods, which contain a black, catharic
pulp, much used in the East Indies as a horse medicine. — Horse cloth, a cloth to cover a horse. —
Horse conch (Zoöl.), a large, spiral, marine shell of the genus Triton. See Triton. — Horse courser.
(a) One that runs horses, or keeps horses for racing. Johnson. (b) A dealer in horses. [Obs.] Wiseman.
— Horse crab (Zoöl.), the Limulus; — called also horsefoot, horsehoe crab, and king crab. — Horse
crevallé (Zoöl.), the cavally. — Horse emmet (Zoöl.), the horse ant. — Horse finch (Zoöl.), the chaffinch.
[Prov. Eng.] — Horse gentian (Bot.), fever root. — Horse iron (Naut.), a large calking iron. —
Horse latitudes, a space in the North Atlantic famous for calms and baffling winds, being between the
westerly winds of higher latitudes and the trade winds. Ham. Nav. Encyc. — Horse mackrel. (Zoöl.)
(a) The common tunny found on the Atlantic coast of Europe and America, and in the Mediterranean.
(b) The bluefish (c) The scad. (d) The name is locally applied to various other fishes, as the California
hake, the black candlefish, the jurel, the bluefish, etc. — Horse marine (Naut.), an awkward, lubbery
person; one of a mythical body of marine cavalry. [Slang] — Horse mussel (Zoöl.), a large, marine
mussel found on the northern shores of Europe and America. — Horse nettle (Bot.), a coarse, prickly,
American herb, the Solanum Carolinense. — Horse parsley. (Bot.) See Alexanders. — Horse
purslain (Bot.), a coarse fleshy weed of tropical America — Horse race, a race by horses; a match
of horses in running or trotting. — Horse racing, the practice of racing with horses. — Horse railroad,
a railroad on which the cars are drawn by horses; — in England, and sometimes in the United States,
called a tramway. — Horse run (Civil Engin.), a device for drawing loaded wheelbarrows up an inclined
plane by horse power. — Horse sense, strong common sense. [Colloq. U.S.] — Horse soldier, a
cavalryman. — Horse sponge (Zoöl.), a large, coarse, commercial sponge — Horse stinger (Zoöl.),
a large dragon fly. [Prov. Eng.] — Horse sugar (Bot.), a shrub of the southern part of the United
States (Symplocos tinctoria), whose leaves are sweet, and good for fodder. — Horse tick (Zoöl.), a
winged, dipterous insect which troubles horses by biting them, and sucking their blood; — called also
horsefly, horse louse, and forest fly. — Horse vetch (Bot.), a plant of the genus Hippocrepis cultivated
for the beauty of its flowers; — called also horsehoe vetch, from the peculiar shape of its pods. — Iron
horse, a locomotive. [Colloq.] — Salt horse, the sailor's name for salt beef. — To look a gift horse
in the mouth, to examine the mouth of a horse which has been received as a gift, in order to ascertain
his age; — hence, to accept favors in a critical and thankless spirit. Lowell. — To take horse. (a) To
set out on horseback. Macaulay. (b) To be covered, as a mare. (c) See definition 7
Horse
(Horse) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Horsed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Horsing.] [AS. horsion.]
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