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To move; to advance; to proceed; to take a course; as, to strike into the fields. A mouse . . . struck forth sternly [bodily]. Piers Plowman.

A fastness; a fort or fortress; fortfield place; a place of security.

A number of sheaves set together in the field; a stook.

style, as when that men to kinges write. Chaucer. Style is the dress of thoughts. Chesterfield. Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style. Swift. It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work. I. Disraeli.

Milton. Make choice of a subject, beautiful and noble, which . . . shall afford an ample field of matter wherein to expatiate. Dryden. The unhappy subject of these quarrels. Shak.

Suburban. [Obs.] "Suburbial fields." Warton. "Suburbian muse." Dryden.

tibility (Physics), the intensity of magnetization of a body placed in a uniform megnetic field of unit strength. Sir W. Thomson.

and act in a pompous, consequential manner. A man who swaggers about London clubs. Beaconsfield.

th a bat or club. Swipes [in cricket] over the blower's head, and over either of the long fields. R. A. Proctor.

rmerly a contraction for that other. See the Note under That, 2. The tothir that was crucifield with him. Wyclif(John xix. 32)

The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency. "External taction." Chesterfield.

ing to rise higher than the falcon; -- said of a bird. (b) See under Air. -- To take the field. (Mil.) See under Field. -- To take thought, to be concerned or anxious; to be solicitous. Matt. vi. 25, 27. -- To take to heart. See under Heart. -- To take to task, to reprove; to censure. -- to take to the air, to tak…

piece of wood or sheet metal fitted into a ditch to dam up the water so as to overflow a field. [U. S.]

n naturalists to be the Lolium temulentum, or darnel. Didst not thou sow good seed in thy field From whence then hath it tares Matt. xiii. 27. The "darnel" is said to be the tares of Scripture, and is the only deleterious species belonging to the whole order. Baird.

The flower or head of some plants, esp. when pendent. And the maize field grew and ripened, Till it stood in all the splendor Of its garments green and yellow, Of its tassels and its plumage. Longfellow.

One who makes tatting. Caulfield & S. (Doct. of Needlework).

her purposes; also, the timber of the tree. [Written also teek.] African teak, a tree (Oldfieldia Africana) of Sierra Leone; also, its very heavy and durable wood; -- called also African oak. -- New Zeland teak, a large tree (Vitex littoralis) of New Zeland; also, its hard, durable timber.

ciple. The smell of grain or tedded grass. Milton. The tedded hay and corn sheaved in one field. Coleridge.

A short fly that falls too far out to be handled by an infielder and too close in to be caught by an outfielder. [Cant]

Thoroughly. [Obs.] Bacon. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity. Ps. li. 2. To dare in fields is valor; but how few Dare to be throughly valiant to be true Dryden.