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An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign. Grath.

Relating to an open fields; drowing in a field; growing in a field, or open ground.

A knight who enjoys ease and security, or luxury, and has not known the hardships of the field; a hero of the drawing room; an effeminate person. Shak. (b) One made a knight, for some other than military distinction or service. -- Carpet moth (Zoöl.), the larva of an insect which feeds on carpets and other woolen goo…

A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field. Ray.

are in themselves very silly things; but yet a man of the world should know them. Chesterfield.

To be vexed or annoyed. Fielding.

The field or ground on which carving appears in relief.

cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove. No more shall trenching war channel her fields. Shak.

lant (Brassica sinapistrum) with yellow flowers; wild mustard. It is troublesome in grain fields. Called also chardock, chardlock, chedlock, and kedlock. Jointed charlock, White charlock, a troublesome weed (Raphanus Raphanistrum) with straw- colored, whitish, or purplish flowers, and jointed pods: wild radish.…

A fruitful field. Libanus shall be turned into charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a forest. Isa. xxix. 17 (Douay version).

killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt. We are those which chased you from the field. Shak. Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and place. Cowper.

A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess.

Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing. [Written also checquy, cheguy.]

of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.

In the manner of a chevron; as, the field may be divided chevronwise.

The upper third part of the field. It is supposed to be composed of the dexter, sinister, and middle chiefs. In chief. (a) At the head; as, a commander in chief. (b) (Eng. Law) From the king, or sovereign; as, tenure in chief, tenure directly from the king.

A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without.

a circumlocution. He had neither time nor temper for sentimental circumvolutions. Beaconsfield.

civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be. Chesterfield. The sweet civilities of life. Dryden.

en ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field. Le