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A croft, or small field; a paddock. [Prov. Eng.]

ridge pea (Bot.), a yellow-flowered leguminous herb (Cassia Chamæcrista), common in sandy fields in the Eastern United States. -- Partridge shell (Zoöl.), a large marine univalve shell (Dolium perdix), having colors variegated like those of the partridge. -- Partridge wood (a) A variegated wood, much esteemed for cab…

irectly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border, etc. "But now pass over [i.e., pass on]." Chaucer. On high behests his angels to and fro Passed frequent. Milton. Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths, And from their bodies passed. Coleridge.…

eceived or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a paternal estate. Their small paternal field of corn. Dryden. Paternal government (Polit. Science), the assumption by the governing power of a quasi-fatherly relation to the people, involving strict and intimate supervision of their business and social concerns, upon t…

To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents. The field pavilioned with his guardians bright. Milton.

Inclined to eat; hungry. [Colloq.] "When shall I feel peckish again" Beaconsfield.

A lava field. [Mexico & Western U.S.]

lling substance; a pleasant odor; fragrance; aroma. No rich perfumes refresh the fruitful field. Pope.

An instrument for determining the extent and shape of the field of vision.

The art of using the perimeter; measurement of the field of vision.

f rotary converter with stationary commutator and rotating brushes, in which the exciting field is induced by the alternating current in a short-circuited magnetic core instead of being produced by an external magnet.

as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield.

A lover of learning; a scholar. Chesterfield.

Act of picking up, as, in various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes the ground.

A miner who works with a pick. Beaconsfield.

e; to peel. See Peel, to plunder. [Obs.] Spenser. Pillers and robbers were come in to the field to pill and to rob. Sir T. Malroy.

o decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east. Pitch and pay, an old aphorism which inculcates ready-money payment, or payment on delivery of goods. Shak.

Level land; usually, an open field or a broad stretch of land with an even surface, or a surface little varied by inequalities; as, the plain of Jordan; the American plains, or prairies. Descending fro the mountain into playn. Chaucer. Him the Ammonite Worshiped in Rabba and her watery plain. Milton.…

To explain by, or accomodate to, the Platonic philosophy. Enfield.

A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.