BREATH, or WIND, in the menage, sometimes signifies the easy respiration of an horse, and sometimes it implies the ease and rest or repose of a horse; as, give your horse breath, that is, do not ride him down; give that leaping horse a long breathing-time between the turns or repetitions of his menage, &c.
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