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Look up: horse

  1. Horse
    The modern horse (genus Equus, which also includes zebras, asses, etc.) evolved about 4 million years ago in North America. It spread to Asia, Europe and Africa. North American horses went extinct about 8,000 years ago, probably due to disease.
    Found on http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subject

  2. Horse
    The horse is a hoofed, odd toed grass eating mammal.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  3. horse
    [n] - a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs 2. [n] - solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times 3. [v] - provide with a horse or horses
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. horse
    Heroin Category: General • large block of unmineralized rock included in a vein Category: The cosmos
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  5. Horse
    Horse (hôrs) noun [ Anglo-Saxon hors ; akin to Old Saxon hros , D. & Old High German ros , German ross , Icelandic hross ; and perhaps to Latin currere to run, English course , current Confer Walrus .] 1. (Zoology) A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus ; especially, the domestic horse ( E. caballus ), wh ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/62

  6. Horse
    Horse transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Horsed ; present participle & verbal noun Horsing .] [ Anglo-Saxon horsion .] 1. To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse. 'Being better horsed , outrode me.' Shak. 2. To sit astride of; to bestride. Shak. ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/63

  7. Horse
    Horse intransitive verb To get on horseback. [ Obsolete] Shelton.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/63

  8. Horse
    Horse noun (Student Slang) (a) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination; -- called also trot , pony , Dobbin . (b) Horseplay; tomfoolery.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/63

  9. horse
    1. To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse. 'Being better horsed, outrode me.' ... 2. To sit astride of; to bestride. ... 3. To cover, as a mare; said of the male. ... 4. To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer. ... 5. To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc, to be flogged; to subj ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  10. horse
    Equus caballus noun solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  11. horse
    verb provide with a horse or horses
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  12. horse
    noun a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  13. horse
    noun troops trained to fight on horseback; `500 horse led the attack`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  14. Horse
    The `horse` (`Equus caballus`) is a large odd-toed ungulate mammal, one of ten modern species of the family Equidae. Horses have long been among the most economically important domesticated animals; however their importance has declined with the introduction of mechanization. The horse is a prominent figure in the ideals of religion, mythology, and art, as well as playing an important role in transportation, agriculture, and warfare. Most hors...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse

  15. HORSE
    `H.O.R.S.E.` is a form of poker commonly played at the high stakes tables of casinos. It consists of rounds of play cycling among: *Texas `H`old 'em, *`O`maha eight or better, *`R`azz, *Seven card `S`tud, and *Seven card stud `E`ight or better. H.O.R.S.E. is a limit game, including hold 'em. However, in some tournament situations (such as the 2006 World Series of Poker event), the final table is no-limit hold 'em. A H.O.R.S.E. tournament ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HORSE

  16. Horse
    • (n.) A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment. • (n.) A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  17. Horse
    (from the article `Duchamp-Villon, Raymond`) Duchamp-Villon`s move toward abstraction was fully achieved in his masterpiece, Horse (1914), which reduces forms to their geometric essentials and ... ...head `Baudelaire` (1911) contrasts with that by his predecessor in its more radical departure from the flesh; the somewhat squar...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/h/71

  18. horse
    a hoofed, herbivorous mammal of the family Equidae. It comprises a single species, Equus caballus, whose numerous varieties are called breeds. Before ... [82 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/h/71

  19. Horse
    A support for one or more rolls of film used on a cutting table.
    Found on http://www.filmland.com/glossary/Diction

  20. horse
    slang for the horsepower, as in '200-horse engine.'
    Found on http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictH.

  21. horse
    horse, hoofed, herbivorous mammal now represented by a single extant genus, Equus. The term horse commonly refers only to the domestic Equus caballus and to the wild Przewalski's horse. (Other so-called wild horses are feral domestic horses or their descendants.) Adapted to plains environments, all ...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08242


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23 November 2009

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At sixteen minutes past five on 23rd November 1963, a British television institution was born. Doctor Who would go on to become the longest-running science-fiction programme in the world, eventually spawning twenty six seasons of adventures from 1963 to 1989. In total, eight actors have played the part of Gallifrey's most famous Time Lord. From the very first - William Hartnell in 1963 - to the very last - Paul McGann, in the 1996 TV Movie - the Doctor has wandered through time and space in his trusty time machine, an old type-40 TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). Although appearing to be nothing more than a battered blue police box, it is in fact vastly bigger on the inside than on the outside, and always departs with its familiar wheezing, groaning sound. read more

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