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A field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps.

e troops or enemies lie in wait to attack by surprise. Bold in close ambush, base in open field. Dryden.

A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel.

Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues. Enfield.

A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding.

ural. [Obs.] An expense proportioned to his appointments and fortune is necessary. Chesterfield.

Made of silver; of a silvery color; white; shining. Yonder argent fields above. Pope.

rs serve continuously with the colors and live in barracks or cantonments when not in the field; (2) the reserves of this army, in which the soldiers, while remaining constantly subject to a call to the colors, live at their homes, being summoned more or less frequently to report for instruction, drill, or maneuvers; a…

A lepidopterous insect, which in the larval state often travels in great multitudes from field to field, destroying grass, grain, and other crops. The common army worm of the northern United States is Leucania unipuncta. The name is often applied to other related species, as the cotton worm.

g not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France.

The stubble of wheat or grass; a stubble field; eddish. [Eng.] [Written also arish, ersh, etc.] The moment we entered the stubble or arrish. Blackw. Mag.

unnery. Campbell. Artillery park, or Park of artillery. (a) A collective body of siege or field artillery, including the guns, and the carriages, ammunition, appurtenances, equipments, and persons necessary for working them. (b) The place where the artillery is encamped or collected. -- Artillery train, or Train of ar…

tion degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.

ry; the fact of being present; presence. Constant attendance at church three times a day. Fielding.

An instrument applied to the ears to give aid in hearing; a kind of ear trumpet. Mansfield.

ient that the very fact hath its foundation in truth, as I do seriously aver is the case. Fielding. Then all averred I had killed the bird. Coleridge.

A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight.

the cable of the small one being fastened to the crown of the large one. -- To back the field, in horse racing, to bet against a particular horse or horses, that some one of all the other horses, collectively designated "the field", will win. -- To back the oars, to row backward with the oars. -- To back a rope, to…

A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside. Bad plowmen made balks of such ground. Fuller.

of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens.