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)

  1. (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

  1. (obsolete) plural of horse

Anagrams


Middle English

Noun

horsen

  1. plural of hors
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