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rgencies. The king's captains and soldiers fight his battles, and yet... the power of the militia is he. Jer. Taylor.

One who belongs to the militia.

To carry on, or prepare for, war. [Obs.] Walpole.

ds. Shak. Standing army, a permanent army of professional soldiers, as distinguished from militia or volunteers.

ut. (a) To summon to fight; to challenge. (b) To summon into service; as, to call out the militia. -- To call over, to recite separate particulars in order, as a roll of names. -- To call to account, to demand explanation of. -- To call to mind, to recollect; to revive in memory. -- To call to order, to request to…

me. Tennyson. Captain general. (a) The commander in chief of an army or armies, or of the militia. (b) The Spanish governor of Cuba and its dependent islands. -- Captain lieutenant, a lieutenant with the rank and duties of captain but with a lieutenant's pay, -- as in the first company of an English regiment.…

force of the whole nation, consisting of all men able to bear arms. The national fyrd or militia. J. R. Green.

A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; -- distinguished from gallowglass, and often used as a term of contempt. Macaulay. Now for our Irish wars; We must supplant those rough, rug-headed kerns. Shak.

The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.

Militia. [Obs.]

The whole body of soldiers; soldiery; militia; troops; the army.

A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.

ws of the United States. -- National flag. See under Flag. -- National guard, a body of militia, or a local military organization, as in Paris during the French Revolution, or as certain bodies of militia in other European countries and in the United States. -- National salute, a salute consisting of as many guns as…

A kind of militia in Poland, consisting of the gentry, which, in case of invasion, was summoned to the defense of the country.

he transaction. -- Regular troops, troops of a standing or permanent army; -- opposed to militia.

A member of a reserve force of soldiers or militia. [Eng.]

To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise; to discipline; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms. Our trained bands, which are the trustiest and most proper strength of a free nation. Milton. The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train. Dryden.…

instituted by James I. and dissolved by Charles II.; -- afterwards applied to the London militia. [Eng.] He felt that, without some better protection than that of the trainbands and Beefeaters, his palace and person would hardly be secure. Macaulay. A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. Cowper.…

A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline. [U. S.] Bartlett.

One of a certain description of militia among the Tartars.