Those obstacles, in the form or nature of the country, which impede the approaches of an enemy.
·noun The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun Natural gifts, impulses, ·etc. II. Natural ·adj Conformed to truth or reality. III. Natural ...
A mistress, a child; also an idiot. A natural son or daughter; a love or merry-begotten child, a bas...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
The art by which a place is so fortified that a given number of men occupying it may advantageously ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·add. ·- Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct proce...
Is the constructing of works intended to strengthen the position of forces operating in the field; w...
A term applied to the descending parabolic curve of a shot or shell in falling. ...
The whole system of works included between the salient angles, or the capitals prolonged, of any two...