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A lepidopterous insect, which in the larval state often travels in great multitudes from field to field, destroying grass, grain, and other crops. The common army worm of the northern United States is Leucania unipuncta. The name is often applied to other related species, as the cotton worm.

In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town.

To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land; -- followed by at (formerly sometimes by to), also by in and from. "Arrived in Padua." Shak. [Æneas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum…

In the sleep of the grave; dead. Concerning them which are asleep . . . sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 1 Thess. iv. 13.

A composition of bitumen, pitch, lime, and gravel, used for forming pavements, and as a water-proof cement for bridges, roofs, etc.; asphaltic cement. Artificial asphalt is prepared from coal tar, lime, sand, etc. Asphalt stone, Asphalt rock, a limestone found impregnated with asphalt.

rmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance. Brave men meet danger with assurance. Knolles. Conversation with the world will give them knowledge and assurance. Locke.

r. We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagerness. Sir F. Palgrave.

Of or pertaining to hearing; auditory. [R.] Cotgrave.

A figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word; amplification; hyperbole.

on stroke, tending to drive the piston in a direction reverse to that in which it should travel; also, an explosion in the exhaust passages of such ah engine.

rsected by canons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).

The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage. The baronet's baggage on the roof of the coach. Thackeray. We saw our baggage following below. Johnson.

One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel. [U.S.]

A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen. Thackeray.

Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.

te in a troop, company, or confederacy. "Banded against his throne." Milton. Banded architrave, pier, shaft, etc. (Arch.), an architrave, pier, etc., of which the regular profile is interrupted by blocks or projections crossing it at right angles.

A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.

pation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.

e neighborhood of Carrara and in Corsica. It commonly shows a dark gray or bluish ground traversed by veins.

Traversed by barrulets or small bars; -- said of the field.