horsen
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to horses; equine
Example Sentences
- "Let hym put the Yearth onely, the Floxe, and the Horsen doung."
- "For laughter: the horsen dolt at last caught up a club, As though he would have slain the master devil, Belsabub, […]"
- "They were all soon mounted and moving toward West Plains, soon coming to a "horsen" log."
- "[…] 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
From Middle English horsen, horsene, equivalent to horse + -en (“of or belonging to”). Cognate with Old High German russīn (“equine, of horses”), whence Middle High German rüssīn, rössīn (“of horses, horsen”).
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Inflected Forms
more horsen (comparative)
most horsen (superlative)