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works
All fortificational constructions, whether permanent, field, or makeshifts of the moment; from the m...

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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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Coal works
·- A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal. ...

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Copper works
·- A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. ...

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Iron works
·- ·see under Iron, ·adj. ...

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Works, Good
The old objection against the doctrine of salvation by grace, that it does away with the necessity o...

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dead works
All that part of the ship which is above water when she is laden. The same as upper work, or superna...

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detached works
Works included in the scheme of defence of a fortress, but separated from it, and beyond the glacis....

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fire-works
See pyrotechny. ...

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try-works
Large copper boilers, for boiling the blubber in whalers. ...

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upper-works
That part of a ship which rises from the water's surface when she is properly trimmed for a voyage. ...

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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...

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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-ice
A sheet of smooth frozen water of a general thickness, and of an extent too large for its boundaries...

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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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Works, Covenant of
Entered into by God with Adam as the representative of the human race (comp. Gen. 9:11, 12; 17:1-21)...

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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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Water Works, London Bridge
On the west side of Old London Bridge, opposite St. Magnus Church, in Bridge Ward Within (O. and M. ...

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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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