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A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.

A soldier armed with a pike. Knolles.

To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load. To pile arms or muskets (Mil.), to place three guns together so that they may stand upright, supporting each other; to stack arms.

d concealed beneath the thorax. -- Pill bug (Zoöl.), any terrestrial isopod of the genus Armadillo, having the habit of rolling itself into a ball when disturbed. Called also pill wood louse.

Maine; -- a nickname alluding to the pine tree in its coat of arms.

A fetter for the arm. Ainsworth.

A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.

An armed ship or vessel which sails without a legal commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels on the high seas.

The hollow place under the shoulder or arm; the axilla, or armpit.

efined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms (Mil.), a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe retreat for hospitals, magazines, etc. Wilhelm. -- High place (Script.), a mount on which sacrifices were offered. "Him that…

Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair. Our troops beat an army in plain fight. Felton.

Metallic armor composed of broad pieces. Mangled . . . through plate and mail. Milton.

A coating or defensive armor of metal (usually steel) plates.

. One that . . . can play well on an instrument. Ezek. xxxiii. 32. Play, my friend, and charm the charmer. Granville.

nt for determining and registering the variations in the size or volume of a limb, as the arm or leg, and hence the variations in the amount of blood in the limb. -- Pleth`ys*mo*graph"ic, a.

husband's murder or accuse her son. Sir P. Sidney. And with thou not reach out a friendly arm, To raise me from amidst this plunge of sorrows Addison.

With all small arms, the second point in which the natural line of sight, when horizontal, cuts the trajectory.

The breastplate of the armor of a horse. See Peytrel. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The act, art, or process of constructing pontoon bridges. "Army instruction in pontooning." Gen. W. T. Shermah.

k, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms. Began to hem him round with ported spears. Milton. Port arms, a position in the manual of arms, executed as above.