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litary position, of a certain arrangement of troops, the most advantageous position for a battlefield, etc.

eakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless. The cowardly rascals that ran from the battle. Shak.

An embrasure or indentation in a battlement; a loophole in a fortress; an indentation; a notch. See Merlon, and Illust. of Battlement.

her forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle.

The ancient battle standard of Denmark, bearing figures of cross and crown. Order of Dannebrog, an ancient Danish order of knighthood.

To make ready to fight; to array. [Obs.] Darrain your battle, for they are at hand. Shak.

kes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle. He at once, Down the long series of eventful time, So fixed the dates of being, so disposed To every living soul of every kind The field of motion, and the hour of rest. Akenside.

To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.

-- To clear the decks (Naut.), to remove every unnecessary incumbrance in preparation for battle; to prepare for action. -- To sweep the deck (Card Playing), to clear off all the stakes on the table by winning them.

An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.

ont and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle.

To refuse; to decline. [Obs.] "To detrect the battle." Holinshed.

In a diffident manner. To stand diffidently against each other with their thoughts in battle array. Hobbes.

langing sound; clamor; roar. Think you a little din can daunt mine ears Shak. He knew the battle's din afar. Sir W. Scott. The dust and din and steam of town. Tennyson.

ow into disorder; to break the array of. Who with fiery steeds Oft disarrayed the foes in battle ranged. Fenton.

isabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation. I . . . can not think of such a battle without dismay. Macaulay. Thou with a tiger spring dost leap upon thy prey, And tear his helpless breast, o'erwhelmed with wild dismay. Mrs. Barbauld.

A drawn game or battle, etc. [Colloq.]

red to be used as a sort of gravy. -- Drawn fowl, an eviscerated fowl. -- Drawn game or battle, one in which neither party wins; one equally contested. -- Drawn fox, one driven from cover. Shak. -- Drawn work, ornamental work made by drawing out threads from fine cloth, and uniting the cross threads, to form a patt…

A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by a main armament of big guns all of the same caliber. She has a displacement of…

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