3. Mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural
termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished
from foot.
The armies were appointed, consisting of twenty-five
thousand horse and foot. --Bacon.
4. A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a
clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.
5. A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers
were made to ride for punishment.
6. Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a
horse; a hobby.
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.
Note: 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
horse?dealer, 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} (Zo["o]l.), 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
({Collinsonia Canadensis}), having large leaves and
yellowish flowers.
{Horse bean} (Bot.), a variety of the English or Windsor bean
({Faba vulgaris}), grown for feeding horses.
{Horse boat}, a boat for conveying horses and cattle, or a
boat propelled by horses.
{Horse bot}. (Zo["o]l.) 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} (Zo["o]l.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), the Limulus; -- called also
{horsefoot}, {horsehoe crab}, and {king crab}.
{Horse crevall['e]} (Zo["o]l.), the cavally.
2. (Zo["o]l.) The Limulus or horseshoe crab.