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manage the chase or to look after the hounds. L'Estrange. Huntsman's cup (Bot.), the sidesaddle flower, or common American pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea).

A pack sack to be swung on either side of a packsaddle. [Western U. S.]

party lines or deference to authority. -- Lance bucket (Cavalry), a socket attached to a saddle or stirrup strap, in which to rest the but of a lance. -- Lance corporal, same as Lancepesade. -- Lance knight, a lansquenet. B. Jonson. -- Lance snake (Zoöl.), the fer-de-lance. -- Stink-fire lance (Mil.), a kind of fu…

A strap for tightening a saddle girth. [Western U. S. & Sp. Amer.]

out of the way. 2. Thess. ii. 7. Mine ancient wound is hardly whole, And lets me from the saddle. Tennyson.

A maker of bits, spurs, and metal mounting for bridles and saddles; hence, a saddler. [Obs.] Holinshed.

terials by the hand, by machinery, or by art, as cloths, iron utensils, shoes, machinery, saddlery, etc.

A large leather flap which covers the saddletree. [Western U.S.]

That on which anything is mounted; a setting; hence, a saddle horse. [Obs.] Spenser.

Infested with moths; moth-eaten. "An old mothy saddle." Shak.

carriage. Navel gall, a bruise on the top of the chine of the back of a horse, behind the saddle. Johnson. -- Navel point. (Her.) Same as Nombril.

A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.

A saddle horse for the road, or for state occasions, as distinguished from a war horse. Chaucer.

Formerly, a piece of cloth serving as a saddle; hence, a soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.

A kind of rustic saddle. Tusser.

The skin of a pig, -- used chiefly for making saddles; hence, a colloquial or slang term for a saddle.

A panel or cushion saddle; the under pad or cushion of saddle; esp., a pad or cushion put on behind a man's saddle, on which a woman may ride. His [a soldier's] shank pillion without stirrups. Spenser.

A wheel, usually with radial handles projecting from the rim, for traversing the saddle of a machine tool, esp. an automatic machine tool, by hand.

The knob or protuberant part of a saddlebow.

To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting. [Eng.]