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

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.

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.

Art of horsemanship, or of training horses

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…

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