Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. any of several horse-shaped chalk figures in England, such as the Uffington White Horse
- n. a wave that is blown by the wind such that its crest is broken up and appears white and foamy; a whitecap
- n. informal heroin, cocaine
GNU Webster's 1913
- A large mass of tough sinewy substance in the head of sperm whales, just above the upper jaw and extending in streaks into the junk above it. It resembles blubber, but contains no oil. Also, the part of the head in which it occurs.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a wave that is blown by the wind so its crest is broken and appears white
Examples
“Its Called ye Vale of Eshum or of ye Red horse from a Red horse Cut out on some of ye hills about it and ye Earth all Looking Red, ye horse Lookes so as yt of ye white horse Vale.”
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
“Taylor was mounted on a white horse and the Old-timer started to refer to him as The young fellow on the white horse.”
“On the other hand, it was more pleasant to think that dying gave her greater sight, and maybe, after all, she had seen the white horse flying back to Olympos.”
“In a cloud of white smoke, and the dan-dan-dan of the rifle-shots, Prenk Pasha – befezzed, and in uniform gold-corded – cantered up on a white horse with his escort, drew rein, and threw himself from the saddle.”
“An open doorway at the back of the shop revealed a glimpse of a small neat room decorated with a particularly unlovely grey-and-green wallpaper, a pair of aspidistras, and a model of a white horse given away with a whisky advertisement.”
“One notorious example was the white horse he asserted, in presence of a number of guests assembled in Madame de Girardin's drawing-room, had been given by him to Jules Sandeau.”
“ I had a fine white horse that I named Whitey, who almost looked like Silver, but was, of course, only an animal, and not to be compared to a Big Person.”
“We drove out through the gap in the city wall next to the Jaffa Gate, the hole cut in 1898 to enable the Kaiser to ride his white horse into the city.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘white horse’.
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horse phrases
phrases compounds
horned horse, horse aloes, horse-and-buggy, horse and foot, horse and horse, horse ant, horse arm, horse-armoury, horse-arms, horse-artillery, horse-ball, horse-balm and 445 more...
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white phrase/words
how white is used
white acajou, white-aproned, white fir, white-armed, white-back, white-arsed, white elm, white-ash breeze, white admiral, white-fly, white ale, white ash and 591 more...
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Black or White
black and white, snow-white, coal-black, blacksmith, whitesmith, blackball, white-box testing, Blackberry, white pages, black book, white paper, blacklist and 107 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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whaling terms
Terms defined in the glossary of Clifford W. Ashley's "Yankee Whaler".
advance, adze, after house, after oar, agent, air up, alow, ambergris, apeak, article, away, bailer and 299 more...
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This List Could Choke a Horse
horse-drawn, horse chestnut, horseless carriage, saddle horse, light horse, pommel horse, horsepower, hobbyhorse, hobby-horse, rocking horse, iron horse, flying horse and 82 more...
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chained_bear "As we had at first stowed it away, the baleen was in bunches of ten or a dozen slabs held together at the roots by 'white horse,' which is the whaler name for the gums of the whale."
--Walter Noble Burns, A Year with a Whaler, 210 Apr 27, 2008