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A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks. Bescherelle.

A long outer garment formerly worn by men and women, as well as by soldiers as part of their uniform.

A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery.

rs. Civic crown (Rom. Antiq.), a crown or garland of oak leaves and acorns, bestowed on a soldier who had saved the life of a citizen in battle.

A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion.

people of the North, during the Civil War, which afforded material comforts to the Union soldiers, and performed services of a religious character in the field and in hospitals. -- The United States Sanitary Commission, an organization formed by the people of the North to coöperate with and supplement the medical dep…

One of a corps of pensioned soldiers, as in London, employed as doorkeepers, messengers, etc.

A present, as of corn, wine, or oil, made by a Roman emperor to the soldiers or the people; -- so called because measured to each in a congius. Addison.

One taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor.

A soldier in the Continental army, or a piece of the Continental currency. See Continental, a., 3.

Armor made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans; used also by Enlish soldiers till the reign of Edward I. Fosbroke.

a coward; a weak-hearted, spiritless fellow. See Recreant, n. King Henry. Is it fit this soldier keep his oath Fluellen.He is a craven and a villain else. Shak.

of; to cause; to produce; to form or fashion; to renew. Your eye in Scotland Would create soldiers. Shak. Create in me a clean heart. Ps. li. 10.

hich men are decoyed and plied with drink, to induce them to ship or enlist as sailors or soldiers. -- Crimping iron. (a) An iron instrument for crimping and curling the hair. (b) A crimping machine. -- Crimping machine, a machine with fluted rollers or with dies, for crimping ruffles leather, iron, etc. -- Crimping…

An irregular soldier, generally from Croatia.

A soldier armed with a cuirass. Milton.

by an angry word! Sir J. Lubbock. The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers. Macaulay.

Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls. O you commanders, That, like me, have no dead-pays. Massinger.

perform for his benefit; thing owed; obligation; liability. Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt. Shak. When you run in debt, you give to another power over your liberty. Franklin.