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Horsed

Horse \Horse\ (h[^o]rs), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Horsed; p. pr. & vb. n. Horsing.] [AS. 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.

  3. To mate with (a mare); -- said of the male.

  4. To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer.
    --S. Butler.

  5. To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.

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horsed

vb. (en-past of: horse)

Usage examples of "horsed".

The Scots, he had heard, had passed Macclesfield the night before, and all day the militia, horsed by the local squires, had been scouting the moors picking up breechless stragglers.

The mounted men, the most essential branch of all, were so ill horsed that brigades were not larger than regiments.

Since the preceding evening there had been seen from the windows of the neighboring houses two post-chaises in the courtyard of the Elysee, horsed, ready to start, the postilions in their saddles.

They wore the mottled green uniform of the Carbineers, one of the horsed troops of paramilitary Cossacks who kept civil order and patrolled the streets of New Orleans.

And therewithal Sir Launcelot alighted off his horse and took up the king and horsed him again, and said thus: My lord Arthur, for God's love stint this strife, for ye get here no worship, and I would do mine utterance, but always I forbear you, and ye nor none of yours forbeareth me.

Leo squinted approvingly against the harsh light and dense shadows of the vacuum as a pair of his space-suited students horsed the locking ring accurately into place on the end of its flex tube.

I have observed some satirists to use the public much at the rate that pedants do a naughty boy, ready horsed for discipline: first expostulate the case, then plead the necessity of the rod from great provocations, and conclude every period with a lash.

Get ready with the emergency shut-offs on both ends, and we'll get this monster horsed around.

Also Lucas found there on foot, Bloias de La Flandres, and Sir Gwinas, two hardy knights, and in that woodness that Lucas was in, he slew two bachelors and horsed them again.