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trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field.

A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer. Plowman's spikenard (Bot.), a European composite weed (Conyza squarrosa), having fragrant roots. Dr. Prior.

A fielder who is stationed on the off side, about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in advance of, the batsman.

An opera glass or field glass with an oblique mirror arranged for seeing objects do not lie directly before the eye; -- called also diagonal, or side, opera glass.

To vote at an election. Beaconsfield.

o be applied to one of them to obtain the true result. -- Guns of position (Mil.), heavy fieldpieces, not designed for quick movements. -- Position finder (Mil.), a range finder. See under Range. -- Position micrometer, a micrometer applied to the tube of an astronomical telescope for measuring angles of position in…

in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold. Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land. Jer. xxxii. 15. Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offense returning, to regain Love once possessed. Milton.

se very prevalent among potters. Parkers. -- Potter's clay. See under Clay. -- Potter's field, a public burial place, especially in a city, for paupers, unknown persons, and criminals; -- so named from the field south of Jerusalem, mentioned in Matt. xxvii. 7. -- Potter's ore. See Alquifou. -- Potter's wheel, a hor…

(as Aristida dichotoma, and Danthonia spicata) which often spring up on old and worn-out fields.

prancing horse; to ride in an ostentatious manner. The insulting tyrant prancing o'er the field. Addison.

To acquaint previously or beforehand. Fielding.

Of or pertaining to a prebend; holding a prebend; as, a prebendal priest or stall. Chesterfield.

Prelatical. Beaconsfield.

Roguery; thievery. [Obs.] Fielding.

to be the favorite flower of the Conservative statesman Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield.

ught that never may remove. Surrey. Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, Which in that field young Edward's sword did print. Sir John Beaumont. Perhaps some footsteps printed in the clay. Roscommon.

ent cement, so that the ordinary image produced by double refraction is thrown out of the field by total reflection from the internal cemented surface, and the extraordinary, or polarized, image alone is transmitted.

al; as, a prodigal man; the prodigal son; prodigal giving; prodigal expenses. In fighting fields [patriots] were prodigal of blood. Dryden.

In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.

Valiant; brave; gallant; courageous. [Archaic] Tennyson. The prowest knight that ever field did fight. Spenser.