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which the form of the work is determined. It is usually the crest line of the parapet in fieldworks, or the top line of the escarp in permanent fortifications.

of the earth at which there is no dip, the dipping needle being horizontal. -- Magnetic field, or Field of magnetic force, any space through which magnet exerts its influence. -- Magnetic fluid, the hypothetical fluid whose existence was formerly assumed in the explanations of the phenomena of magnetism. -- Magneti…

ctric induction. Magneto-electric machine, a form of dynamo-electric machine in which the field is maintained by permanent steel magnets instead of electro-magnets.

An officer next in rank above a captain and next below a lieutenant colonel; the lowest field officer.

A school for teaching horsemanship, and for training horses. Chesterfield.

A kind of large field beet (B. macrorhiza), used as food for cattle, -- by some considered a mere variety of the ordinary beet. See Beet. [Written also mangold-wurzel.]

any in rich gowns. Addison. It will be concluded by manythat he lived like an honest man. Fielding.

To overspread or manure with marl; as, to marl a field.

A large field tent; esp., one adapted to the use of an officer of high rank. [Written also markee.]

A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.

Pertaining to mediation; used in mediation; as, mediative efforts. Beaconsfield.

sovereignty, and its prince his rank. The misfortune of being a mediatized prince. Beaconsfield.

Double image micrometer, a micrometer in which two images of an object are formed in the field, usually by the two halves of a bisected lens which are movable along their line of section by a screw, and distances are determined by the number of screw revolutions necessary to bring the points to be measured into optica…

A petty falling out; a tiff; a quarrel; offense. Fielding.

To have in mind; to purpose. Beaconsfield. I mind to tell him plainly what I think. Shak.

th certain powers for transacting business; comission. Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late, Made emulous missions' mongst the gods themselves. Shak.

, pertaining to, or uttered in, a monotone; monotonous. "Monotonical declamation." Chesterfield.

A match used in firing guns or blasting. Field mouse, Flying mouse, etc. See under Field, Flying, etc. -- Mouse bird (Zoöl.), a coly. -- Mouse deer (Zoöl.), a chevrotain, as the kanchil. -- Mouse galago (Zoöl.), a very small West American galago (Galago murinus). In color and size it resembles a mouse. It has a bush…

Cut down by mowing, as grass; deprived of grass by mowing; as, a mown field.

in duration; as, much rain has fallen; much time. Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in. Deut. xxviii. 38.