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A body of persons organized for the advancement of a cause; as, the Blue Ribbon Army.

anges, and equips its armed land forces. The usual divisions are: (1) A regular or active army, in which soldiers serve continuously with the colors and live in barracks or cantonments when not in the field; (2) the reserves of this army, in which the soldiers, while remaining constantly subject to a call to the colors…

reat 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.

Full of barm or froth; in a ferment. "Barmy beer." Dryden.

The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.

Astride; with a part on each side; -- used specif. in designating the position of an army with the wings separated by some line of demarcation, as a river or road.

imental and garrison duty. Adjutant general (a) (Mil.), the principal staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S. army he is brigadier general. (b) (Among the Jesuits), one of a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of t…

; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication.

Gazing with astonishment; amazed. [Obs.] The whole army stood agazed on him. Shak.

One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; -- called also adjutators. Clarendon.

Pertaining to an army marching, or to a train. [R.]

mirth and no matter. Shak. All the whole, the whole (emphatically). [Obs.] "All the whole army." Shak.

A field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps.

o longer exists; as, to annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees. "To annihilate the army." Macaulay.

To molest, incommode, or harm; as, to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade.

Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever is appointed for use and management; outfit; (pl.) the accouterments of military officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords. The cavaliers emulated their chief in the richness of their appointments. Prescott. I'll prove it in my shackles, with these hands Voi…

ania and neighboring mountainous regions, specif. one serving as a soldier in the Turkish army.

-- Articles of war, rules and regulations, fixed by law, for the better government of the army. -- In the article of death Etym: [L. in articulo mortis], at the moment of death; in the dying struggle. -- Lords of the articles (Scot. Hist.), a standing committee of the Scottish Parliament to whom was intrusted the dra…

The men and officers of that branch of the army to which the care and management of artillery are confided.

Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. [U.S.]