Tournaments

(türn'ah-mentz,) or TOURNEYS. (Chivalry.) Martial sports, where knights displayed their gallantry and adroitne ,by encountering each other on horseback; the weapons being lances with blunt heads of iron, or the lau ce and sword used in war these latter being termed arms à l'outrance. As chivalry declined, and as gunpowder revolutionized the art of war, T. gradually died out. [s. 902]