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A genus of vascular, cryptogamic, herbaceous plants; -- also called horsetails.

Horsemanship.

Mounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback.

A riding, or the act of riding, on horseback; horsemanship. The pretender to equitation mounted. W. Irving.

Feeding on horseflesh; as, equivorous Tartars.

A genus of mammals, including the horse, ass, etc.

The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the horse-chestnut; as, esculic acid.

A glucoside obtained from the Æsculus hippocastanum, or horse- chestnut, and characterized by its fine blue fluorescent solutions. [Written also æsculin.]

The action of a horse, when, to get rid of his rider, he rears, plunges, and kicks furiously.

ich other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast.

Having a neck like a ewe; -- said of horses in which the arch of the neck is deficent, being somewhat hollowed out. Youwatt.

classics. Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. Gen. xlix. 4. Then peers grew proud in horsemanship t' excel. Pope.

and receive reciprocally, as things of the same kind; to barter; to swap; as, to exchange horses with a neighbor; to exchange houses or hats. Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet. Shak.

g the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise ob horseback. The wise for cure on exercise depend. Dryden.

To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. [Obs.] The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn.

A blinder on a horse's bridle.

The action of a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets. Harris.

of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship.

Plowed land. [Obs.] Who . . . pricketh his blind horse over the fallows. Chaucer.