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o scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat. And his proud foes discomfit in victorious field. Spenser.

Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. "Discursive notices." De Quincey. The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. Hazlitt. A man rather tacit than discursive. Carlyle.

A hollow place, as in a field. Ogilvie.

strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure. Two great peers were disrobed of their glory. Sir H. Wotton.

ssolving view, a picture which grows dim and is gradually replaced by another on the same field; -- an effect produced by magic lanterns.

A space marked out in the last part of a race course. The horse that ran the whole field out of distance. L'Estrange.

title or contents on the back of; to summarize; as, to docket letters and papers. Chesterfield.

A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game. [Local, Eng.] Halliwell.

continued usage; -- said of a book. Statute books before unopened, not dog-eared. Ld. Mansfield.

gains at examinations the highest honor both in the classics and the mathematics. Beaconsfield.

Gentleness and sweetness of manner; agreeableness. Chesterfield.

To transfer by draft. All her rents been drafted to London. Fielding.

r is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand. "But sermons are mere drugs." Fielding. And virtue shall a drug become. Dryden.

rumhead court-martial (Mil.), a summary court-martial called to try offenses on the battlefield or the line of march, when, sometimes, a drumhead has to do service as a writing table.

uddenly withdraw. Adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice, leaped out of the tub. Fielding.

ange power of the world that, the moment we enter it, our great conceptions dwarf. Beaconsfield.

r without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of you. "Each of the combatants." Fielding.

e, or dignity of an earl. He [Pulteney] shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom. Chesterfield.

Aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. See Arrish. [Eng.]

ication; as, to edit a newspaper. Philosophical treatises which have never been edited. Enfield.