horse (the old pl. without “s” is freq. used)
1.
proverbial phr.
(of obscure meaning)
Shr. I. ii. 82
“as many diseases as
two-and-fifty h-s,”
(cf. Lr. III. vi. 21);
Tw.N. II. iii. 184
“a of that
colour,”
something of that kind;
R3 I. i. 159
“I run before my to
market,”
I count my gains prematurely.
2.
applied
contemptuously to a man (cf. CUT sb. 3)
1H4 II. iv. 219
“spit in my face, call
me ,”
Troil. III. iii. 126
“a very , That has he
knows not what”
; cf.
1H4 III. iii. 10
“a peppercorn, a
brewer's horse.”
