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Literature | Horse. IN PHRASE AND PROVERB. A dark horse. A horse whose merits as a racer are not known to the general public. Flogging the dead horse. (See Flogging.) Riding the wooden horse. A military punishment now discontinued. It was a flogging-stool. I will win the horse or lose the saddle. Neck or nothing; double or quits. Milton makes Satan say, "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." Latin: "Aut ter sex, aut tres tesserae." (See Ter Sex.) "Au Caesar, aut nullus." French: "Tout ou rien." "Je veux risquer le tout pour le tout." They cannot draw (or set) horses together. They cannot agree together. The French say, "Nos chiens ne chassent pas ensemble. " 'Tis a Trojan horse (Latin proverb). A deception, a concealed danger. Thus Cicero says, "Intus, intus, inquam, est equus Trojanus ' (Pro Murena, 78). It was Epeos who made the Trojan horse. 'Tis a good horse that never stumbles. Everyone has his faults. Every black has its white, and every sweet its sour. Latin: "Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus." Horace: Ars Poetica, 359. "Humanum est errare." French: "Il n'y a bon cheval qui ne bronche,"or "Il n'est si bon cheval qui ne bronche." To get upon one's high horse. To give oneself airs. (See High Horse.) To set the cart before the horse. (See Cart.) When the horse (or steed) is stolen, lock the stable door. The French say: "Apres la mort, le medicine. " Somewhat similar is: "After beef, mustard." Working on the dead horse. (See Working.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Animal | Horse. (beast of burden); cattle, kine, ox; bull, bullock; cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn; sheep; lamb, lambkin; ewe, ram, tup; pig, swine, boar, hog, sow; steer, stot; tag, teg; bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat. |
Attribution | Verb: attribute to, ascribe to, impute to, refer to, lay to, point to, trace to, bring home to; put down to, set down to, blame; charge on, ground on; invest with, assign as cause, lay at, the door of, father upon; account for, derive from, point out the reason; theorize; tell how it comes; put the saddle on the right horse. |
Pendency | Eg, knob, button, hook, nail, stud, ring, staple, tenterhook; fastening; spar, horse. |
Probity | Give and take, audire alteram partem, give the Devil his due, put the saddle on the right horse. |
Skill | Look after the main chance; cut one's coat according to one's cloth; live by one's wits; exercise one's discretion, feather the oar, sail near the wind; stoop to conquer; (cunning); play one's cards well, play one's best card; hit the right nail on the head, put the saddle on the right horse. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: HORSE. |
| Specialty definitions using "HORSE.": Arion, Arundel, Ascapart ♦ Bavieca, Bayardo, Beans, Bells, Bevis', BONESETTER, Brigadore, Brigliadoro, Bronzomarte, Bucephalos ♦ Caligula's Horse, Carmelite ♦ Diomed's Horses, Dioscuri, Doctor Syntax ♦ Electricity ♦ FOOTMAN'S MAWND ♦ Galathe, GALLOPER, Gee-up!, Grani, Green Horse, Grey Mare, GROGHAM ♦ Harmonia's Necklace, Hercules' Horse, HOBBY HORSE, Horse Protestant ♦ JACKED ♦ KEFFEL ♦ LABOR DAY ♦ Old Rowley, Orelio ♦ Parviz', Passe Brewell, peitostaa, Peter of Provence, PIPER, Poille, PRAD ♦ Quixote ♦ Rabicano, RACING SECRETARY AND HANDICAPPER, Rakush, Redgauntlet, RELIGIOUS HORSE, ROARER, Rozinante, RUM PRANCER ♦ salt vein, SCARLET HORSE, SICK AS A HORSE, signals, Sinon, SNICKER, Standards ♦ THIRD ♦ understanding ♦ WOODEN HORSE, Wooden Horse of Troy ♦ Xanthos. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "HORSE.": Cavalcade, Current ♦ Havior ♦ Plaguy ♦ Torril. (references) |
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Screenplays | We'll be talking about Freud and why he did enough cocaine to kill a small horse. (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck) I thought the hero was supposed to kiss his horse. (The Lost World; writing credit: Alison Lea Bingeman) You laugh like a horse. (Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain; writing credit: Barry Glasser) For me, salvation is a clean pistol and a good horse. (Stranger at My Door; writing credit: Barry Shipman) Put him on a horse. (One-Eyed Jacks; writing credit: Charles Neider; Guy Trosper) | |
Clever | When riding a dead horse (government), try appointing a committee to study the horse. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Once Upon a Horse... (1958) | |
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 | Pictured are two young women riding a horse. It is outdoors on a summer day. These two young women are part of a larger Mormon family. The Mormons are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Plate 39. The Sea Horse. Hippocampus heptagonus, raf. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | Plate 222A. The Red Horse. Moxostoma macrolepidotum (Le S.), Jordan. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Stephen, Sir George. Adventures of a Gentleman in Search of a Horse. Philadelphia: John W. Moore, 1857. Credit: USDA. |
 | A Native-American in traditional dress riding a horse.. Credit: Unknown. |  | Previously adopted wild horse.. Credit: Jinx Fox. |
 | Cowboy petting his horse. Cattle ranch near Spur, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cowboy saddling horse. Roundup near Marfa, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | "Home of Mrs. American Horse." Visiting squaws at Mrs. A's home in hostile camp. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Red Cloud and American Horse." The two most noted chiefs now living. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles V | I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse. |
Lord Alfred Tennyson | He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. |
Ronald Reagan | I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | The gentlemen spoke of his horse. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was a tilbury drawn by a small white horse. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The plump bald sergeantmajor was testing with his foot the springboard of the vaulting horse. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | John Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Earl of Surrey, Shall have the leading of this foot and horse. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Set your hips and tow it along, like a work horse. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | This body consisted of three thousand foot, and a thousand horse. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse. His understanding was so keen That all things which he'd felt, heard, seen, He could interpret without fail If he was in or out of jail. He wrote at Inspiration's call Deep disquisitions on them all, Then, pent at last in an asylum, Performed the service to compile 'em. So great a writer, all men swore, They never had not read before. Jorrock Wormley |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters ".-e-h-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: heros, hoers, horse, shoer, shore. | |
-2 letters: eros, hero, hers, hoer, hoes, hose, ores, resh, rhos, roes, rose, shoe, sore. | |
-3 letters: ers, her, hes, hoe, oes, ohs, ore, ors, ose, res, rho, roe, ser, she. | |
-4 letters: eh, er, es, he, ho, oe, oh, or, os, re, sh, so. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 4F 52 53 45 2E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01001111 01010010 01010011 01000101 00101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H O R S E . |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 004F 0052 0053 0045 002E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)424952533916 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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