or Ecury, a grand stable or lodge for horses, furnished with all the conveniences thereof; as stalls, manger, rack, &c. The word is formed from the French ecure, which signifies the same thing. Some again derive ecure from the Latin curia, which not only denotes a place for beasts to be put up in, but also a grange or barn. But a more probable derivation is from equile, "a stable for horles," of equus, "horse." Some hold that the word stable, in propriety, relates only to bullocks, cows, sheep, hogs, &c. and ecury, to horses, mules, &c.

A simple ecury is that provided for one row of horses; a double ecury that provided for two, with a passage in the middle, or two passages; the horses being placed head to head, as in the little ecury at Verfailles.

Under ecury are sometimes also comprehended the lodgings and apartments of the ecurers, grooms, pages, &c.

Ecury (ecuyer), is also an officer who has the care and management of the horses of a king or prince.

ECUERIES, or ECURRIES, popularly called Querries, are particularly used among us for officers of the king's stables, under the master of the horse, seven in number, who when his majesty goes abroad, ride in the leading coach, are in waiting one at a time monthly, and have a table with the gentlemen ushers during the time, and a salary of 300l. a-year each. They used to ride on horseback by the coach side when the king travelled; but that being more expensive to them than necessary to the sovereign, it has been discontinued.

ECUERIES of the Crown Stable have that appellation, as being employed in managing and breaking the fadicle-horses, and preparing them for the king's riding. These are two in number; the first having an annual salary of 250l. and the second 200l., whereof one is, or always should be, in close waiting at court; and when his majesty rides, holds the stirrup, while the master of the horse, or one of the ecurers in his absence, assists in mounting him; and when his majesty rides, they usually attend him.

ECUES, in antiquity. See ECUESTRIAN Order and ECUTES.

ECUES Auratus, is used to signify a knight-bachelor, called auratus, q. d. gilt, because anciently none but knights might gilt or beautify their armour or other habiliments of war with gold. In law this term is not used, but instead of it miles, and sometimes chevalier.

ECUESTRIA, among the Romans, a place in the theatre where the equites or knight sat.

ECUESTRIAN (equitis), 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 eques, "knight, horseman;" of equus, "horse."

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

ECUESTRIAN Order, among the Romans, signified their their knights or equites; also their troopers or horse- men in the field; the first of which orders flood 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 angles are all equal: such are a square, an equilateral triangle, &c.