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A leather case for a pistol, carried by a horseman at the bow of his saddle.

Art of horsemanship, or of training horses

A horseman armed with a lance, who in a bullfight receives the first attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him without attempting to kill him.

The track or tread a horseman makes upon the ground he goes over. Johnson.

One who spurs forward; a light horseman. The prickers, who rode foremost, . . . halted. Sir W. Scott.

An acquired trait; accomplishment; acquisition. He had those qualities of horsemanship, dancing, and fencing which accompany a good breeding. Clarendon.

y women when riding. (b) A kind of cloak with a hood. -- Riding master, an instructor in horsemanship. -- Riding rhyme (Pros.), the meter of five accents, with couplet rhyme; -- probably so called from the mounted pilgrims described in the Canterbury Tales. Dr. Guest. -- Riding school, a school or place where the ar…

A horseman or trooper. [Obs.] Such a regiment of rutters Never defied men braver. Beau. & Fl.

ce, dignity, profession, or art; as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship, horsemanship.

See Reed, n., 1. (b) meadow grass. See under Meadow. -- Spear hand, the hand in which a horseman holds a spear; the right hand. Crabb. -- Spear side, the male line of a family. Lowell. -- Spear thistle (Bot.), the common thistle (Cnicus lanceolatus).

An implement secured to the heel, or above the heel, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knighthood. And on her feet a pair of spurs large. Chaucer.

price or compensation. His great stipendiary prelates came with troops of evil-appointed horseman not half full. Knolles.

a journal; -- also called wrist pin. Bridle wrist, the wrist of the left hand, in which a horseman holds the bridle. -- Wrist clonus. Etym: [NL. clonus, fr. Gr. Clonic.] (Med.) A series of quickly alternating movements of flexion and extension of the wrist, produced in some cases of nervous disease by suddenly bending…