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called by the English rural folk who often find these objects of prehistoric make in the fields and formerly attributed them to fairies; -- called also elf bolt, elf dart, and elf shot. -- Elf child, a child supposed to be left by elves, in room of one they had stolen. See Changeling. -- Elf fire, the ignis fatuus.…

Having been the place of battle; as, an embattled plain or field. J. Baillie.

iversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures and colors; variegated decoration. Fields in spring's embroidery are dressed. Addison. A mere rhetorical embroidery of phrases. J. A. Symonds.

, extremity, in general; the concluding part; termination; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line, pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end to pain; -- opposed to Ant: beginning, when used of anything having a first part. Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. Eccl. vii. 8.…

eictic dialogue, in the Platonic philosophy, is one which exhibits a specimen of skill. Enfield.

To cover or deck with flowers. [Poetic] These odorous and enflowered fields. B. Jonson.

es, etc., and, in time of war, supervises the engineering operations of the armies in the field.

blood; to make bloody, or of a blood-red color; as, an ensanguined hue. "The ensanguined field." Milton.

insensible to present objects. Him, still entranced and in a litter laid, They bore from field and to the bed conveyed. Dryden.

er place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. Chesterfield.

ension is sometimes communicated by clockwork, so as to keep the object constantly in the field of the telescope. Called also an equatorial telescope.

A fault of a player of the side in the field which results in failure to put out a player on the other side, or gives him an unearned base. Law of error, or Law of frequency of error (Mensuration), the law which expresses the relation between the magnitude of an error and the frequency with which that error will be com…

n which bearings are marshaled and displayed. The surface of the escutcheon is called the field, the upper part is called the chief, and the lower part the base (see Chiff, and Field.). That side of the escutcheon which is on the right hand of the knight who bears the shield on his arm is called dexter, and the other s…

d or land yields, as the hay of the meadows, the feed of the pasture, the grain of arable fields, the rents, services, and the like. Cowell.

Serving or tending to excite; excitative. [R.] Bamfield.

vociferate; to shout; as, to exclaim against oppression with wonder or astonishment; "The field is won!" he exclaimed.

One who favor or practices any from of exclusiveness or exclusivism. The field of Greek mythology . . . the favorite sporting ground of the exclusivists of the solar theory. Gladstone.

To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden. Afford art an ample field in which to expatiate itself. Dryden.

ion; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.

tious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero. The fabulous birth of Minerva. Chesterfield.