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A field where corn is or has been growing; -- in England, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in America, a field of Indian corn.

An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm. Wharton's Law Dict. Tomlins…

To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder. [Obs.] Fuller.

To defend, as with a shield; to shield. [Archaic] Shak.

A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The…

Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar.

A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture. Fields which promise corn and wine. Byron.

Engaged in the field; encamped. [Obs.] To help fielded friends. Shak.

Consisting of fields. [Obs.] The fielden country also and plains. Holland.

A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls.

a small thrush (Turdus pilaris) which breeds in northern Europe and winters in Great Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare.

The act of playing as a fielder.

A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.

Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural. All works which do not come under the head of permanent fortification are called fieldworks. Wilhelm.

Open, like a field. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To repay; to requite. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To deprive of anything essential. Bereft and gelded of his patrimony. Shak.

Capable of being gelded.

One who gelds or castrates.

Same as Guelder-rose.