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Limited in range; confined to a definite field of action, investigation, or discussion; as, a special dictionary of commercial terms; a special branch of study.

rds of the genus Arachnothera. -- Spider lines, filaments of a spider's web crossing the field of vision in optical instruments; -- used for determining the exact position of objects and making delicate measurements. Fine wires, silk fibers, or lines on glass similarly placed, are called spider lines. -- Spider mite.…

nters a tree. After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and . . . abandoned the field to the enemy. Prescott.

An irregular, narrow, projecting part of a field. [Prov. Eng.]

Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.

ouse frequented by sportsmen, gamblers, and the like. -- Sporting man, one who practices field sports; also, a horse racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like. -- Sporting plant (Bot.), a plant in which a single bud or offset suddenly assumes a new, and sometimes very different, character from that of the rest of the…

One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc.

The practice of sportsmen; skill in field sports.

ed to an annular pencil by means of a small, round diaphragm (the spot), and used in dark-field ilumination; -- called also spotted lens. -- Spot rump (Zoöl.), the Hudsonian godwit (Limosa hæmastica). -- Spots on the sun. (Astron.) See Sun spot, ander Sun. -- On, or Upon, the spot, immediately; before moving; withou…

n; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent or a sail. He bought a parcel of a field where he had spread his tent. Gen. xxxiii. 19. Here the Rhone Hath spread himself a couch. Byron.

A variety of the field spaniel. See Spaniel.

graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope; -- also called stadia, and stadia rod.

uiry it is proper to take stock of the results obtained by previous explorers of the same field. Leslie Stephen.

To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.

A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves.

The fieldfare.

Capable of being strangled. [R.] Chesterfield.

by dwellings or business houses. He removed [the body of] Amasa from the street unto the field. Coverdale. At home or through the high street passing. Milton.

n or over a floor; to strew flowers over a grave. And strewed his mangled limbs about the field. Dryden. On a principal table a desk was open and many papers [were] strewn about. Beaconsfield.

manner. Mars in the middle of the shining shield Is graved, and strides along the liquid field. Dryden.