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camp chair, except that the stool has no back. -- Flying camp (Mil.), a camp or body of troops formed for rapid motion from one place to another. Farrow. -- To pitch (a) camp, to set up the tents or huts of a camp. -- To strike camp, to take down the tents or huts of a camp.

To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops.

A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters.

The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed on other service.

e fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.

A hollow way, adapted to cover troops, and facilitate their aproach to a place. Farrow.

The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as, to sound the charge. Never, in any other war afore, gave the Romans a hotter charge upon the enemies. Holland. The charge of the light brigade. Tennyson.

One of a body of light troops, cavalry or infantry, trained for rapid movements.

A captain, leader, or commander; a chief; the head of a troop, army, or clan.

A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; -- contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy.

A body of troops, or any naval or military force or post, or the whole territory under the authority or control of a particular officer.

An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called commissary of subsistence. [U. S.] Washington wrote to the President of Congress . . . urging the appointment of a commissary general, a quartermaster general, a commissary of musters, and a commissary of artiller…

A subdivision of a regiment of troops under the command of a captain, numbering in the United States (full strength) 100 men.

To gather or unite in a crowd or company. [A Latinism] "In one troop compelled." Dryden.

To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.

division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share; proportion; esp., a quota of troops. From the Alps to the border of Flanders, contingents were required . . . 200,000 men were in arms. Milman.

nd the forced contributions paid by luckless peasants, enabled him to keep his straggling troops together. Motley.

A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank.

ost, dire was the din of war. Philips. Their generals have not been able to cope with the troops of Athens. Addison.

or their good dinners. -- Cordon sanitaire (kd" s Etym: [F., sanitary cordon], a line of troops or military posts around a district infected with disease, to cut off communication, and thus prevent the disease from spreading.