(Equeftris), a term chiefly used in the phrase equestrian statue, which signifies a statue representing a person mounted on horseback. The word is formed of the Latin equer, "knight, horsemanship," of equus, "horse."

EQUESTRIAN Games, among the Romans, horse-races, of which there were five kinds, the prodromus or plain horse-race, the chariots-race, the decursory-race about funeral piles, the ludi seviri, and the ludi neptunales.

EQUESTRIAN Order, among the Romans, signified their Equangy their knights or equites; as also their troopers or horse- men in the field; the first of which orders stood in con- tradistinction to the senators; as the last did to the foot, military, or infantry. Each of these distinctions was introduced into the state by Romulus.

**EQUANGULAR**, in *Geometry*, an epithet given to figures whose whole angles are all equal; such are a square, an equilateral triangle, &c.