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The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship.

y the crest line of the parapet in fieldworks, or the top line of the escarp in permanent fortifications.

In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.

Means of defense; fortification. [Obs.] Spenser.

Fortification; stronghold. [Obs.] His place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks. Is. xxxiii. 16.

A battlement in ancient fortifications with interstices for firing through.

Any structure (as a fortification) or place with eight sides or angles. Regular octagon, one in which the sides are all equal, and the angles also are all equal.

A small opening or loophole, sometimes circular, used in mediæval fortifications.

An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse. Farrow.

A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.

To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump. First Peace and Silence all disputes control, Then Order plays the soul. Herbert.

und a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification. Mahan.

Sweeping; grazing; -- applied to a style of fortification in which the command of the works over each other, and over the country, is kept very low, in order that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground before them. H. L. Scott.

A kind of ancient fortification found in Ireland.

and a graduated arc, -- used by military engineers for measuring and laying off angles of fortifications.

A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.

kuma). -- Sand bag (a) A bag filled with sand or earth, used for various purposes, as in fortification, for ballast, etc. (b) A long bag filled with sand, used as a club by assassins. -- Sand ball, soap mixed with sand, made into a ball for use at the toilet. -- Sand bath. (a) (Chem.) A vessel of hot sand in a labor…

saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.

A fortification, or work for defense; a fort. No sconce or fortress of his raising was ever known either to have been forced, or yielded up, or quitted. Milton.

r. The colonel had been intent upon other things, and not enough solicitous to finish the fortifications. Clarendon. -- So*lic"it*ous*ly, adv. -- So*lic"it*ous*ness, n.