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That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service. Troops . . . widely scattered in little detachments. Bancroft.

To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron.

hority; to impose; as, to dictate the terms of a treaty; a general dictates orders to his troops. Whatsoever is dictated to us by God must be believed. Watts.

ott. -- Direct fire (Mil.), fire, the direction of which is perpendicular to the line of troops or to the parapet aimed at. -- Direct process (Metal.), one which yields metal in working condition by a single process from the ore. Knight. -- Direct tax, a tax assessed directly on lands, etc., and polls, distinguished…

Want of array or regular order; disorder; confusion. Disrank the troops, set all in disarray. Daniel.

m on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark; as, the general disembarked the troops.

To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted.

Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.

to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers. [Archaic] Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart. Spenser. The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted. Emerson.

anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines.

Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in troops did else dispose. Spenser.

Relative space, between troops in ranks, measured from front to rear; -- contrasted with interval, which is measured from right to left. "Distance between companies in close column is twelve yards." Farrow.

Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures and foes to life. Shak.

An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance. Upton (Tactics).

Manifestation; expression; sign. All the large effects That troop with majesty. Shak.

To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.

The act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops.

Free; clear; devoid; -- often with of. "That fair female troop . . . empty of all good." Milton. I shall find you empty of that fault. Shak.

A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire.

To go aboard a railway train; as, the troops entrained at the station. [Recent, Eng.]