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A small cooper coin formerly current in the Roman States, worth about a cent and a half.

A company of persons united in any common design, especially a body of armed men. Troops of horsemen with his bands of foot. Shak.

To supply with barracks; to establish in barracks; as, to barrack troops.

sk, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.

luence of electric waves. The original form consisted of an extremely fine platinum wire loop attached to terminals and inclosed in a small glass or silver bulb. In a later variety, called the liquid barretter, wire is replace by a column of liquid in a very fine capillary tube.

A soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the Turkish army.

Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action. A drawing up the armies in battalia. Jer. Taylor.

A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array. "The whole battalion views." Milton.

attery d'enfilade, or Enfilading battery, one that sweeps the whole length of a line of troops or part of a work. -- Battery en écharpe, one that plays obliquely. -- Battery gun, a gun capable of firing a number, of shots simultaneously or successively without stopping to load. -- Battery wagon, a wagon employed to…

A kind of cloak or surtout. [Obs.] Johnson. Let the looped bavaroy the fop embrace. Gay.

A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.

A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command. They have troops of soldiers at their beck. Shak.

A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope

in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade. "Beset with foes." Milton. Let thy troops beset our gates. Addison.

A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub. [Prov. Eng.]

A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage. B. Jonson.

in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop.

A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap. Knight.

th of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage. Sir W. Scott.

The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy.