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order for battle, and performing military and naval evolutions. It is divided into grand tactics, or the tactics of battles, and elementary tactics, or the tactics of instruction.

oot hook, a hook with a handle, used for pulling on boots. -- Boots and saddles (Cavalry Tactics), the trumpet call which is the first signal for mounted drill. -- Sly boots. See Slyboots, in the Vocabulary.

visions of the line, a brigade of artillery, and a regiment of cavalry. Gen. Upton (U. S. Tactics. )

of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance. Upton (Tactics).

oops, or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in tactics. Farrow. Guide bar (Mach.), the part of a steam engine on which the crosshead slides, and by which the motion of the piston rod is kept parallel to the cylinder, being a substitute for the parallel motion; -- called also g…

A movement in tactics by which the order of companies in line is inverted, the right being on the left, the left on the right, and so on.

. (b) A picture produced by printing from such an engraving. -- Line of battle. (a) (Mil Tactics) The position of troops drawn up in their usual order without any determined maneuver. (b) (Naval) The line or arrangement formed by vessels of war in an engagement. -- Line of battle ship. See Ship of the line, below. -…

To perform a movement or movements in military or naval tactics; to make changes in position with reference to getting advantage in attack or defense.

See Tactics.

Of or pertaining to the art of military and naval tactics. -- Tac"tic*al*ly, adv.

One versed in tactics; hence, a skillful maneuverer; an adroit manager.