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A book with an authoritative exposition of some topic, respected by many experts on the field. Bible Society, an association for securing the multiplication and wide distribution of the Bible. -- Douay Bible. See Douay Bible. -- Geneva Bible. See under Geneva.

A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals. [Obs.] Homilies.

ng, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double- barreled field glass or an opera glass.

is born; the anniversary of that night in succeeding years. The angelic song in Bethlehem field, On thy birthnight, that sung thee Savior born. Milton.

make white. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.

The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.

A plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers.

Money. [Cant] Beaconsfield.

A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field. [Scot.]

A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.

in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.

A game at cards similar to bluff. Chesterfield.

A cabal, intrigue, faction, contention, strife, or quarrel. [Obs.] Chesterfield.

To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze. Fields . . . browsed by deep-uddered kine. Tennyson.

e. [Eng.] Villebeck prevailed upon Flora to drive with him to the race in a buggy. Beaconsfield.

A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field. The hay was growing upon headlands and butts in cornfields. Burrill.

fall; the feebleness of old age; senility. [R.] [A] jumble of youth and caducity. Chesterfield.

carriage for conveying ammunition, consisting of two parts, a body and a limber. In light field batteries there is one caisson to each piece, having two ammunition boxes on the body, and one on the limber. Farrow.

, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it.

A mouse (Arvicala agrestis), called also meadow mouse, which often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.