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The military caste, the second of the four great Hindoo castes; also, a member of that caste. See Caste. [India]

e size. -- Land fish a fish on land; a person quite out of place.Shak. -- Land force, a military force serving on land, as distinguished from a naval force. -- Land, ho! (Naut.), a sailor's cry in announcing sight of land. -- Land ice, a field of ice adhering to the coast, in distinction from a floe. -- Land leech…

That part of the army, in Germany and Austria, which has completed the usual military service and is exempt from duty in time of peace, except that it is called out occasionally for drill.

vier. -- Mariotte's law. See Boyle's law (above). -- Martial law.See under Martial. -- Military law, a branch of the general municipal law, consisting of rules ordained for the government of the military force of a state in peace and war, and administered in courts martial. Kent. Warren's Blackstone. -- Moral law,t…

A military force; an army; military bands.

ecution. Levy in mass Etym: [F. levée en masse], a requisition of all able-bodied men for military service.

, science, or literature; learned; lettered. The literate now chose their emperor, as the military chose theirs. Landor.

orm clothing issued by feudal superiors to their retainers and serving as a badge when in military service.

That branch of the military art which embraces the details of moving and supplying armies. The meaning of the word is by some writers extended to include strategy. H. L. Scott.

me administrative authority; the lord lieutenant of a county being a deputy to manage its military concerns, and also to nominate to the chancellor the justices of the peace for that county. -- Lord of misrule, the master of the revels at Christmas in a nobleman's or other great house. Eng. Cyc. -- Lords spiritual, t…

A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc. "Armories and magazines." Milton.

In various parts of Asia, an open space, as for military exercises, or for a market place; an open grassy tract; an esplanade.

The military rank of a major.

A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.

Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.

A military engine formerly used for throwing stones and javelins.

To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France.

A military officer of high rank; a marshal. [Obs.]

Of, pertaining to, or suited for, war; military; as, martial music; a martial appearance. "Martial equipage." Milton.

In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods. [Hence, the word is commonly employed in a depreciatory sense.]