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Holding, held, or founded, in trust. Spelman.

ks which do not come under the head of permanent fortification are called fieldworks. Wilhelm.

e body of soldiers constituing the mass of an army, including corporals and privates. Wilhelm. (b) Those who constitute the bulk or working members of a party, society, etc., in distinction from the leaders.

-- an eruptive fever which St. Anthony was supposed to cure miraculously. Hoblyn. -- St. Elmo's fire. See under Saint Elmo. -- To set on fire, to inflame; to kindle. -- To take fire, to begin to burn; to fly into a passion.

Any worm belonging to the Plathelminthes; also, sometimes applied to the planarians.

To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.

f troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward. Wilhelm.

ercises; a file leader. He originally stood in front of the right wing. [Written also flugelman.]

The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower.

Wearing a helmet; protected by a helmet; covered, as with a helmet.

se edge was on the outside curve; also, a light lance with a long sharp-pointed head. Wilhelm.

said of the sun. (b) To be known or recognized by (a name, title, etc.). (c) To be overwhelmed, submerged, or defeated; to perish; to succumb. -- To go up, to come to nothing; to prove abortive; to fail. [Slang] -- To go upon, to act upon, as a foundation or hypothesis. -- To go with. (a) To accompany. (b) To coinci…

. -- Goose corn (Bot.), a coarse kind of rush (Juncus squarrosus). -- Goose feast, Michaelmas. [Colloq. Eng.] -- Goose flesh, a peculiar roughness of the skin produced by cold or fear; -- called also goose skin.goose pimples and goose bumps -- Goose grass. (Bot.)

A mask carved in imitation of a Gorgon's head. Elmes.

into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm. R. H. Dana, Jr.

omething had, possessed, and firmly retained; as, a religious habit; his habit is morose; elms have a spreading habit; esp., physical temperament or constitution; as, a full habit of body.

A genus of trees (Celtis) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. C. occidentalis is common in the Eastern United States. Gray.

Easily managed; obedient to the helm; -- said of a vessel.

ed in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari. W. E. Griffis.

habergeon. See Habergeon. [Written variously hauberg, hauberque, hawberk, etc.] Chaucer. Helm, nor hawberk's twisted mail. Gray.