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formerly used also of the human male. They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him. Wyclif (Acts viii. 38).

A field where grain is grown.

A cultivated variety of a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), bearing large bunches of white flowers; -- called also snowball tree.

The long-tailed duck. See Old Squaw.

A field where grass for hay has been cut; a meadow. Cowper.

imp. & p. p. of Hold.

Afield adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne.

To inclose, as a field. [R.]

See Buttweld, v. t.

Having a kell or covering; webbed. [Obs.] Drayton.

Having edges or ends united by a lap weld; as, a lap-welded pipe.

In the game of pinochle, to declare or announce for a score; as, to meld a sequence.

The mistletoe. [Obs.] Baret.

A needle. [Obs.] Shak.

A kind of plaster, said to have been invented by Mindererus, -- used for external injuries. [Obs.]

Arable land which has been or is being exhausted. See Infield, 1. [Scot.]

A region infested by rebels; rebels, considered collectively; also, conduct o Thackeray.

A member of a religious sect founded by Kaspar von Schwenkfeld, a Silesian reformer who disagreed with Luther, especially on the deification of the body of Christ.

The domain or sphere of scoundrels; scoundrels, collectively; the state, ideas, or practices of scoundrels. Carlyle.

Rarely; seldom. [Obs.] Chaucer.