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A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus).

The act or art of riding, and of training and managing horses; manege.

A soldier who serves in the light horse. See under 5th Light.

spose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew his battle blade. Campbell. These doubts will be arrayed before their minds. Farrar.

A half turn which a horseman makes, either to the right or the left.

A horseman covered with a cataphract. Archers and slingers, cataphracts, and spears. Milton.

A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man. "Mount, chevaliers; to arms." Shak.

Wyoming, but now mostly on reservations in the Indian Territory. They are noted for their horsemanship.

A circular inclosure for the exhibition of feats of horsemanship, acrobatic displays, etc. Also, the company of performers, with their equipage.

f a horse, that interrupts his cadence and the measure of his manege, occasioned by a bad horseman, or the bad temper of the horse.

Of or pertaining to horses or horsemen, or to horsemanship; as, equestrian feats, or games.

The art of riding on horseback; performance on horseback; horsemanship; as, feats equestrianism.

Horsemanship.

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

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

A striking act of strength, skill, or cunning; a trick; as, feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity.

I horsemanship, a sidelong or curveting kind of gallop.

To dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to array. Harnessed in rugged steel. Rowe. A gay dagger, Harnessed well and sharp as point of spear. Chaucer.

One who by his tenure was to maintain a horse for military service; a kind of light horseman in the Middle Ages who was mounted on a hobby. Hallam. Sir J. Davies.

A light horseman. See 2d Hobbler. [Obs.] Brande & C.