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A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.

Auxiliary. [Archaic] The auxiliar troops and Trojan hosts appear. Pope.

Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops. Auxiliary scales (Mus.), the scales of relative or attendant keys. See under Attendant, a. -- Auxiliary verbs (Gram.). See Auxiliary, n., 3.

A company of persons united in any common design, especially a body of armed men. Troops of horsemen with his bands of foot. Shak.

To supply with barracks; to establish in barracks; as, to barrack troops.

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

Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action. A drawing up the armies in battalia. Jer. Taylor.

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

Battery d'enfilade, or Enfilading battery, one that sweeps the whole length of a line of troops or part of a work. -- Battery en écharpe, one that plays obliquely. -- Battery gun, a gun capable of firing a number, of shots simultaneously or successively without stopping to load. -- Battery wagon, a wagon employed t…

A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command. They have troops of soldiers at their beck. Shak.

m in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade. "Beset with foes." Milton. Let thy troops beset our gates. Addison.

A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage. B. Jonson.

orth of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage. Sir W. Scott.

The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy.

a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war. It was most important too that his troops should be blooded. Macaulay.

tion of the skin, probably parasitic in origin, prevailing in India (as among the British troops) and especially at Delhi.

nder a scout commissioner, under whose supervision are scout masters, each in charge of a troop of two or more patrols of eight scouts each, who are of three classes, tenderfoot, second-class scout, and first-class scout.

A body of troops, whether cavalry, artillery, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a brigadier general.

those grave senators. Macaulay. Broken ground. (a) (Mil.) Rough or uneven ground; as, the troops were retarded in their advance by broken ground. (b) Ground recently opened with the plow. -- Broken line (Geom.), the straight lines which join a number of given points taken in some specified order. -- Broken meat, frag…

Troops that are mounted on camels.