1st. The horizontal movement, or _Moulinet_ proper, circling the sword round the head. The grip is held as lightly as possible, chiefly with the thumb and the first finger, resting the pommel upon the palm, and carrying the nails upwards. The blade should be moved as horizontally as it can be, with the back just clearing the swordsman’s crown: it should describe, not a true circle, but an oval with a long diameter in the directing line to the centre of the Target through the heels or ankles of the recruit. Finally, the point should be lanced or thrown out, as it were, towards the opponent’s face. Evidently it may be done in two ways, first, from right to left, which I will call the “Tierce Moulinet” (_Moulinet à gauche_); this is by far the easiest and the more habitual, corresponding with Tierce “Counter,” opposition, or describing with the blade a circle round the adversary’s blade, in the fencing school. The reverse movement (“Carte Moulinet,” _Moulinet à droite_), from left to right, requires, like the Counter of Carte, much more practice. In these directions “right and left” apply to the right and left of the swordsman’s wrist. 2nd. In France the term “Moulinet” is mostly applied to these two rotations of the sword round the head, but we will extend it to all circlings of the point. The vertical form is also made from the hand in Tierce (Outside Guard), the blade is brought sharply round with the back towards the breast and left shoulder, and returns to its original position; we will call this the “Inside Moulinet,” having reference to the performer, not the adversary. The “Outside Moulinet” is when from “Tierce or Outside Guard” the blade passes along the right shoulder, it is simply the former done in the outer line. [Illustration: Horizontal Moulinet.] Again the “Inside Moulinet,” which ends with the Cut from above downwards (the French _enlevé_), may be inverted so as to cut from downwards upwards (the _brisé_). The same may be done with the “Outside Moulinet,” when the wrist must be turned upwards, and the Cut given in the ascending line. This difficult movement should be practised in order to ensure a flexible wrist, but it exposes the whole arm. In the four latter “Cuts,” the one invariable rule is to circle the point as vertically as possible. The French _Manuel_ (pp. 234, 235) gives: 1, the _enlevé_ cutting from above downwards; and it may be either _à gauche_ (Tierce Moulinet) or _à droite_ (Carte Moulinet); 2, the Moulinet proper; and 3, the _brisé_, cutting from downwards upwards, thus reversing the _enlevé_; and this also may be done _à gauche_ (Tierce Moulinet) or _à droite_ (Carte Moulinet). [Illustration: Vertical Moulinet.]