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• Field

  ·vi To take the field. II. Field ·noun The space covered by an optical instrument at one view. III...

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• Field

  (Heb. sadeh), a cultivated field, but unenclosed. It is applied to any cultivated ground or pasture ...

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• field

  The country in which military operations are being carried on; the scene of a conflict. ♦ Taking t...

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• Field

  The Hebrew sadeh is applied to any cultivated ground, and in some instances in marked opposition to ...

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• Ice

  ·noun Concreted sugar. II. Ice ·noun Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice. ...

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• Ice

  Frequently mentioned (Job 6:16; 38:29; Ps. 147:17, etc.). (See Crystal.) ...

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• Fuller's field

  A spot near Jerusalem (2 Kings 18:17; Isa. 36:2; 7:3), on the side of the highway west of the city, ...

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• Potters field

  The name given to the piece of ground which was afterwards bought with the money that had been given...

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• Field, Nathaniel

  (1587-1633) Dramatist and actor, was one of "the children of the Queen's Revels," who performed in ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• "Field, Michael"

  Poet (pen-name adopted by two ladies, understood to be Miss Bradley and Miss Cooper). Callirrhoé (18...

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• Field Lane

  North out of Holborn to Great Saffron Hill. The southern end only is in Farringdon Ward Without, the...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• gold-field

  n. district where mining for goldis carried on. 1858. T. McCombie, `History of Victoria, c. xv. p....

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• quartz-field

  n. a non-alluvial goldfield. 1890. `The Argus,' June 16, p. 6, col. 1: «Our principal quartz-fiel...

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• field-allowance

  A small extra payment made to officers, and sometimes to privates, on active service in the field, t...

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• field-artillery

  Light ordnance fitted for travel as to be applicable to the active operations of the field. The term...

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• field-day

  A day of exercise and evolutions. ...

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• field-fortification

  Is the constructing of works intended to strengthen the position of forces operating in the field; w...

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• field-glass

  A telescope, frequently so termed. Also, the binocular or opera-glass, used for field-work, night-wo...

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• field-gun

  See field-artillery. ...

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• field-marshal

  The highest rank in the British army. ...

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• field-officers

  The colonel, lieutenant-colonels, and majors of a regiment; so called because, not having the common...

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• field-pieces

  Light guns proper to be taken into field operations; one or more of them is now carried by all ships...

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• field-works

  The constructions of field-fortification (which see). ...

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• Bay ice

  ·- ·see under <<Ice>>. ...

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• Ice plant

  ·- A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten ...

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• Ice-built

  ·adj Loaded with ice. II. Ice-built ·adj Composed of ice. ...

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• Neapolitan ice

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Neapolitan ice cream. ...

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• Water ice

  ·- Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection. ...

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• ice-plant

  n. Tasmanian name for Tetragoniaimplexicoma, Hook., N.O. Ficoideae, B. Fl. Variousspecies of Tetrag...

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• ice-candles

  icicles. Kent. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• ice-bone

  a rump of beef. Norf. ...

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• anchor-ice

  The ice which is formed on and incrustates the beds of lakes and rivers: the ground-gru of the easte...

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• bay-ice

  Ice newly formed on the surface of the sea, and having the colour of the water; it is then in the fi...

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• cake-ice

  Ice formed in the early part of the season. ...

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• drift-ice

  The debris of the main pack. (See open ice.) ...

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• ground-ice

  See anchor-ice. ...

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• ice-anchor

  A bar of round iron tapered to a point, and bent as a pot-hook; a hole is cut in the ice, the point ...

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• ice-beams

  Strengtheners for whalers. (See fortifying.) ...

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• ice-birds

  Small sea-fowl in the polar regions. ...

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• ice-blink

  A streak or stratum of lucid whiteness which appears over the ice in that part of the atmosphere adj...

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• ice-boat

  A peculiar track-schuyt for the Dutch canals in winter. ...

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• ice-bound

  A vessel so surrounded by ice as to be prevented from proceeding on her voyage. ...

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• ice-chisel

  A large socket-chisel into which a pole is inserted, used to cut holes in the ice. ...

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• ice-claws

  A flat claw with two prongs spread like a can-hook; the same as a single span or claw-dog. ...

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• ice-fenders

  Fenders of any kind, used to protect a vessel from injury by ice; usually broken spars hanging verti...

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• ice vein

  A narrow temporary channel of water in the packs or other large collections of ice. ...

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• ice lane or vein

  A narrow temporary channel of water in the packs or other large collections of ice. ...

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• ice-master

  A pilot, or man of experience, for the Arctic Sea. ...

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• ice-plank

  See spike-plank. ...

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• ice-quake

  The rending crash which accompanies the breaking of floes of ice. ...

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• ice-saw

  A huge saw for cutting through ice; it is made of 2/8 to 3/8 inch plates of iron, and varies in leng...

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• ice-sludge

  Small comminuted ice, or bay-ice broken up by the wind. ...

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• ice-tongue

  See tongue. ...

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• land-ice

  Flat ice connected with the shore, within which there is no channel. ...

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• light ice

  That which has but little depth in the water; it is not considered dangerous to shipping, as not bei...

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• loose ice

  A number of pieces near each other, but through which the ship can make her way. ...

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• main-ice

  A body of impenetrable ice apparently detached from the land, but immovable; between which and the l...

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• old ice

  In polar parlance, that of previous seasons. ...

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• open ice

  Fragments of ice sufficiently separate to admit of a ship forcing or boring through them under sail....

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• pack-ice

  A large collection of broken floe huddled together, but constantly varying its position; said to be ...

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• penknife ice

  A name given by Parry to ice, the surface of which is composed of numberless irregular vertical crys...

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• piling ice

  In Arctic parlance, where from pressure the ice is raised, slab over slab, into a high mass, which c...

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• sailing ice

  A number of loose pieces floating at a sufficient distance from each other, for a ship to be able to...

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• sea-ice

  Ice within which there is a separation from the land. ...

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• slush-ice

  The first layer which forms when the surface is freezing. ...

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• stream-ice

  A collection of pieces of drift or bay ice, joining each other in a ridge following in the line of c...

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• young ice

  Nearly the same as bay-ice, except that it is only applied to ice very recently formed, or of the pr...

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• Zophim, Field of

  Field of watchers, a place in Moab on the range of Pisgah (Num. 23:14). To this place Balak brought ...

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• field lane duck

  A baked sheep's head. ...

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• field of view

  That space which is visible in a telescope at one view, and which diminishes under augmenting eye-pi...

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• Fullers Field, The

  a spot near Jerusalem, (2 Kings 8:17; Isaiah 7:3; 36:2) so close to the walls that a person speaking...

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• Potters Field, The

  a piece of ground which, according to the statement of St. Matthew, (Matthew 27:7) was purchased by ...

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• Neapolitan ice cream

  ·add. ·- An ice or ice cream containing eggs as well as cream. II. Neapolitan ice cream ·add. ·- An...

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• barrier of ice

  Ice stretching from the land-ice to the sea or main ice, or across a channel, so as to render it imp...

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• beset in ice

  Surrounded with ice, and no opening for advance or retreat, so as to be obliged to remain immovable....

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• heavy drift-ice

  Dense ice, which has a great depth in the water in proportion to its size, and is not in a state of ...

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• hummocks of ice

  Protuberant lumps of ice thrown up by some pressure upon a field or floe, or any other frozen plane....

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• island of ice

  A name given to a great quantity of ice collected into one solid mass and floating upon the sea; the...

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• vein of ice

  A narrow channel between two fields. Any open cracks or separations of floe offering navigation. ...

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• lane or vein of ice

  A narrow channel between two fields. Any open cracks or separations of floe offering navigation. ...

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• blink of the ice

  A bright appearance or looming (the iceberg reflected in the atmosphere above it), often assuming an...

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• run of the ice

  In Arctic parlance, implies that the ice is suddenly impelled by a rushing motion, arising from curr...

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• vent-field of a gun

  The raised tablet in the metal near the breech in which the vent is bored. ...

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