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rvice. (b) In England, a regiment liable to be ordered into other quarters, at home or abroad; a regiment of the line.

gunner's mate; one of the soldiers in a train of artillery, who assisted the gunners in loading, firing, and sponging the guns. [Obs.]

Cotula), having a strong odor; dog's fennel. It is a native of Europe, now common by the roadsides in the United States.

as, to take one's measure for a coat. The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. Job xi. 9.

A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers.

with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader. Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad. Shak.

Having a medium orbital index; having orbits neither broad nor narrow; between megaseme and microseme.

The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.

Having the orbital index relatively small; having the orbits broad transversely; -- opposed to Ant: megaseme.

being in, the middle of a ship. Midship beam (Naut.), the beam or timber upon which the broadest part of a vessel is formed. -- Midship bend, the broadest frame in a vessel. Weale.

An American marine fish of the genus Porichthys, allied to the toadfish. Cadet midshipman, formerly a title distinguishing a cadet line officer from a cadet engineer at the U. S. Naval Academy. See under Cadet. -- Cadet midshipman, formerly, a naval cadet who had served his time, passed his examinations, and was await…

The timbers at the broadest part of the vessel. R. H. Dana, Jr.

regate length or distance in miles; esp., the sum of lengths of tracks or wires of a railroad company, telegraph company, etc. [Written also milage.] Constructive mileage, a mileage allowed for journeys supposed to be made, but not actually made. Bartlett.

Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry road.

Shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon.

A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly.

ain cap or headdress for women or girls; especially, one tying under the chin by a very broad band, generally of the same material as the cap itself. Thackeray.

necessary to break a given substance across, as a beam, expressed by eighteen times the load which is required to break a bar of one inch square, supported flatwise at two points one foot apart, and loaded in the middle between the points of support. Rankine.

n school, England, of giing every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school.

A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); -- called also lookdown, and silver moonfish.