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Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.

An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.

A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root. [Also spelt berberry.]…

A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.

Traversed by barrulets or small bars; -- said of the field.

, Divided into bars; -- said of the field.

A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take out of the posts.

The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon.

toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.

A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances. He held the baton of command. Prescott.

Two or more pieces of artillery in the field.

To signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to. The field is the world. Matt. xiii. 38. The seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. Rev. i. 20.

eads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field. Spenser. It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line. Quart. Rev.

To dye or stain. Briton fields with Sarazin blood bedyed. Spenser.

To think; to suppose. I will not believe so meanly of you. Fielding. To believe in. (a) To believe that the subject of the thought (if a person or thing) exists, or (if an event) that it has occurred, or will occur; -- as, to believe in the resurrection of the dead. "She does not believe in Jupiter." J. H. Newman. (b)…

One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base. Bend sinister (Her.), an honorable ordinary drawn from the sinister chief to the dexter base.

Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor. [Obs.] Wright. Bowmen bickered upon the bent. Chevy Chase.

A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.

ten broad, frequently occurring near the head of a mountain glacier, about where the névé field joins the valley portion of the glacier.

Penetrating rays readily deflected by a magnetic or electric field, emitted by radioactive substances, as radium. They consist of negatively charged particles or electrons, apparently the same in kind as those of the cathode rays, but having much higher velocities (about 35,000 to 180,000 miles per second).…