Crossword-Solution: PIAFFER 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Their construction, they say, is opposed to it; it is then nature that has so willed it; ought we not to bow before this supreme arbiter, and respect its decrees? [R] "The _piaffer_ is the horse's raising his legs diagonally, as in the trot, but without advancing or receding."--_Baucher's_ "_Dictionnaire d'Equitation._" This opinion is undoubtedly convenient for justifying its own ignorance, but it is none the less false.

For the _piaffer_ to be regular and graceful, it is necessary that the horse's legs, moved diagonally, rise together and fall in the same way upon the ground at as long intervals as possible.

When the centre of the forces is thus disposed in the middle of the body, and when the _rassembler_ is perfect, it is sufficient, in order to induce a commencement of _piaffer_, to communicate to the horse with the legs a vibration at first slight, but often repeated.

The performance of the _piaffer_ is not elegant and perfect until the horse performs it without repugnance, which will always be the case when the forces are kept together, and the position is suitable to the demands of the movement.

Thus we see that by the _rassembler_ we will successively obtain the _piaffer_ stationary, and the _piaffer_ backwards, even without the aid of the reins.