horsen

English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sən

Etymology 1

From Middle English horsen, horsene, equivalent to horse +‎ -en (“of or belonging to”).

Adjective

horsen (comparative more horsen, superlative most horsen)

(rare) Of or pertaining to horses; equine
- 1558, Warde, Alexis' Secr.:
  Let hym put the Yearth onely, the Floxe, and the Horsen doung.
- 1773, Thomas Hawkins, Gammer Gurton's needle:
  For laughter: the horsen dolt at last caught up a club, As though he would have slain the master devil, Belsabub, [...]
- 1907, William Monks, A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas:
  They were all soon mounted and moving toward West Plains, soon coming to a "horsen" log.
- 1952, Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Volume 69:
  [...] farm nearly equal to Thurston's: he complained against William Seburne, who under the name Hopkins had as great a total land interest, that 'Seyborne seyde ffoorde was a bawdy knave and a bawdy harlot a horsen knave and that no truth [...]

Etymology 2

From Middle English horsen, alternative plural of hors, equivalent to horse +‎ -en (plural suffix).

Noun

horsen

(obsolete) plural of horse

Anagrams

Honers, herons, honers, hornes, nosher, rhones, senhor

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