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ve an eclipse; to observe the color or fashion of a dress; to observe the movements of an army.

rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army. Milton. The onset and retire Of both your armies. Shak. Who on that day the word of onset gave. Wordsworth.

See Army organization, above.

g; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering.

uman intellect, or to human institutions and undertakings, as a science, a government, an army, a war, etc. This original and supreme will organizes the government. Cranch.

A guard or small body of troops at a distance from the main body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy; hence, anything for defense placed at a distance from the thing to be defended.

A post or station without the limits of a camp, or at a distance from the main body of an army, for observation of the enemy.

One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army; -- so called from Pandur, a principal town in the region from which they originally came. [Written also pandoor.] Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars. Campbell.

paper; resembling paper; existing only on paper; unsubstantial; as, a paper box; a paper army.

And with his pointed dart Explores the nearest passage to his heart. Dryden. The Persian army had advanced into the . . . passages of Cilicia. South.

; also, the men thus guarding; as, a customs patrol; a fire patrol. In France there is an army of patrols to secure her fiscal regulations. A. Hamilton.

An officer in the Spartan army commanding fifty men. Mitford.

A troop of fifty soldiers in the Spartan army; -- called also pentecostys. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.

fficer in the navy, as a gunner, etc., corresponding to a noncommissionned officer in the army.

To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.

A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.

Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair. Our troops beat an army in plain fight. Felton.

The act, art, or process of constructing pontoon bridges. "Army instruction in pontooning." Gen. W. T. Shermah.