Other forms: horses
A horse is a large fast animal that people ride. Ride a horse, a racehorse, on horseback.
The male is a stallion or a gelding, the female a mare, and the young a foal, colt or filly. Height is measured in hands, one hand being four inches, from the ground to the withers. The idioms are everywhere: straight from the horse's mouth, hold your horses, a dark horse, flogging a dead horse, and do not look a gift horse in the mouth — nearly all of them from checking a horse's teeth before buying.
1nounhorseA large fast animal that people ride.
“The horse is about sixteen hands and eats accordingly.”
horse is an animal.
Old English hors comes from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning to run — the same root, remarkably, as the Latin currere, which gives car, course and current. The horse and the car are named from the same running.
Middle English
hors
English, today
horse
From Middle English hors. From Middle English hors, horse, ors, from Old English hors (“horse”), from Proto-West Germanic hross, from Proto-Germanic hrussą (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), from Proto-Indo-European ḱers- (“to run”). a doublet of car and carrus. 2
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA