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n the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend.

and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill.

tan. Drumhead court-martial (Mil.), a summary court-martial called to try offenses on the battlefield or the line of march, when, sometimes, a drumhead has to do service as a writing table.

decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate.

Of uncertain event or issue; as, in dubious battle.

A combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons, by agreement. It usually arises from an injury done or an affront given by one to the other. Trial by duel (Old Law), a combat between two persons for proving a cause; trial by battel.

e act or practice of fighting in single combat. Also adj. [Written also duelling.]

One who fights in single combat. [Written also duellist.] A duelist . . . always values himself upon his courage, his sense of honor, his fidelity and friendship. Hume.

nia. [Written also dillisk.] The crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter. Percival.

To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.

her with or without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of you. "Each of the combatants." Fielding.

Keble. A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys. Hawthorne. Conceit and grief an eager combat fight. Shak.

long; to yearn. [Obs.] And ever as he rode, his heart did earn To prove his puissance in battle brave. Spenser.

To take position in echelon. Change direction to the left, echelon by battalion from the right. Upton (Tactics).

r effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown. "The eclat of Homer's battles." Pope.

nomy . . . of poems better observed than in Terence. B. Jonson. The Jews already had a Sabbath, which, as citizens and subjects of that economy, they were obliged to keep. Paley.

ce. Upon the edge of yonder coppice. Shak. In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of battle. Milton. Pursue even to the very edge of destruction. Sir W. Scott.

ar." Mrs. Browning. Electric atmosphere, or Electric aura. See under Aura. -- Electrical battery. See Battery. -- Electrical brush. See under Brush. -- Electric cable. See Telegraph cable, under Telegraph. -- Electric candle. See under Candle. -- Electric cat (Zoöl.), one of three or more large species of African…

(f) Positive electricity, the electricity that appears at the positive pole or anode of a battery, or that is produced by friction of glass; -- called also vitreous electricity.

ely to some other associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; - - the converse or correlative of electro-negative.