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large or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reëforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil. But their spite still serves His glory to augment. Milton.

See Army organization, Switzerland.

The front of an army. [Obs.] See Van.

The van or advanced body of an army. See Vanguard.

to the front; the hinder or rear part of a thing; as, the back of a book; the back of an army; the back of a chimney.

To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.

The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.

the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army.

A farmyard. [Eng.] Southey.

y, protected by fortifications, or by natural advantages, from which the operations of an army proceed, forward movements are made, supplies are furnished, etc.

A soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the Turkish army.

An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body. [Obs.] Shak.

A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array. "The whole battalion views." Milton.

A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.

To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade. The wail of famine in beleaguered towns. Longfellow.

A major in the Turkish army.

The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.

by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army. [Obs.] A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping pans. Webster (1612).

nce; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army.

tive badge of certain temperance or total abstinence organizations, as of the Blue ribbon Army. -- Blue ruin, utter ruin; also, gin. [Eng. Slang] Carlyle. -- Blue spar (Min.), azure spar; lazulite. See Lazulite. -- Blue thrush (Zoöl.), a European and Asiatic thrush (Petrocossyphus cyaneas). -- Blue verditer. See Ve…