field 
plain, or is filled with symbol* or letters, which (except 
wbeii they appear in the exergue) are described as being 
in the field, or in field. 
7. In her., the escutcheon, considered as a 
plane of a given tincture upon which the dif- 
ferent bearings appear to be laid ; also, when 
the escutcheon is divided by impalement or 
quartering, each division, as a quarter or the 
half divided pale wise, it being considered as the 
whole escutcheon with reference to that coat 
of arms. (See cut under shield.) In a flag the 
field is the ground of each division. 
Bright Hag at yonder tapering mast, 
Fling out your /Mi/ of azure blue; 
Let star and stripe be westward cast, 
And point as Freedom's eagle Hen ! 
-V. /'. Willis. 
The American yacht flag . . . displays a white foul an- 
chor in a circle of 13 stars ill the blue field [of the union]. 
Amer. Cyc., VII. 252. 
8. In rntom., a place, space, or area, as a di- 
vision of the surface of a wing: as, the pos- 
terior of the discoidal field. 9. Any space or 
region; specifically, any region, open or cov- 
ered with forests, considered with reference to 
its particular products or features ; an extent 
of ground covered with or containing some 
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field-glass 
power; in a telescope or microscope, the space or ran;;' field-day (feld'da), . 1. A day when troops 
within which objects are visible to an eye looking througl 
the instrument. Field shunt, the shunt or derived cir- 
cuit of a shunt-wound dynamo (see dynamo) which gives 
rise to the electromagnetic Held in which the armature re 
volves. Fields of Cohnheim. same as areat nf Culm- 
heim (which see, under area).- Flatness of the field. 
See flatmw. Open-field system, field-grass system, 
phrases used in describing the methods of allotment and 
tillage in ancient village communities, where upon theopen 
fields of the community arable lots were allotted from time 
to time to individuals, and plowed and cultivated in turn. 
The next fact to be noted is that under the English sys- 
tem the open fields were the common fields the arable 
are drawn up for instruction in field exercises 
and evolutions. Hence 2. Any day of un- 
usual bustle, exertion, or display. 
Nobody . . . supposes that a dinner at home is charac- 
terized by ... the mean pomp and ostentation which 
distinguish our banquets on grand field-days. 
Thackeray, Book of Snobs, xx. 
3. A day when explorations, scientific investi- 
gations, etc., as of a society, are carried on in 
the field. 
See dog. 
BSW3a?Hw3K5uff venting wandering cattle from doing damage, 
tation of crops in three courses was pursued. To keep 
the field, (a) To keep the campaign open ; live in tents, 
or be in a state of active operations : as, at the approach 
of cold weather the troops were unable to keep the field, 
(b) To maintain one's ground against all comers. 
There all day long Sir Pelleas kept the field 
With honour. Tennyson, Pelleas and Ettarre. 
To take the field, to begin the active operations of a 
campaign ; put troops in a position of menace. Uniform 
field, in physics, a field of force throughout which the force 
is constant and has everywhere the same direction. Unit 
field, in physics, a field of force throughout which there 
[< field, .] I. trans. In base- 
ball and cricket, to catch or stop and return to 
and of impounding strays ; a hay ward. 
The Field Drivers [of Bedford] perform the duties of a 
hayward, and receive fees, commonly called pound-shot, 
for cattle. Municip. Corp. Reports (1835), p. 2109. 
field-duck (feld'duk), . An occasional name 
of the little bustard, Otis tetrax. 
fielded (fel'ded), a. [< field + -erf 2 .] Being in 
the field of battle ; encamped. [Poetical.] 
That we with smoking swords may march from hence, 
To help our fielded friends. Shak., Cor., i. 4. 
fieldent (fel'den), a. [< field + -en*.~\ Consist- 
ing of fields. 
The fielden country also and plains. Holland. 
special natural formation or production: as, field (feld), r. 
diamond-, gold-, coal-, or ^oil- (petroleum-) fields, ball &nA crick-., 
10. A scene of operations; open space of any t he necessary place: as, to field the ball. field-equipage (feld'ek"wi-paj), n. See equi- 
extent considered as a theater of action : as, re- u_ intrans. 1. To take to the field ; do any- page 1 , 1. 
searches in the field; the field of military op- thing in the field, as exploring, fighting, or fielder (fel'der), w. 1. In base-ball, cricket, etc., 
erations; a hunting-^eW ; the general's head- 
quarters were in the field. 
The Confederate government did not hesitate to enter 
the field and take a share in the business. 
J. R. Soley, Blockade and Cruisers, p. 155. 
Specifically 11. A battle-ground; the space 
searching for food. 
The more highly improved breeds of the pigeons will not 
field, or search for their own food. 
Darwin, Var. of Animals and Plants, p. 6. 
2. In base-ball and cricket, to act as a fielder. 
Also (in cricket) to fag out. 
on which a battle is or has been fought ; hence, field-ale (feld'al), re. An extortionate practice fl e i/jf|j. e (feld'far) 
V4-*1. n ^ nn r, *],,. JlfiJsI xvP "WTn + nwlrvf* C <!.. ....:.,.( ,, H ',,...,:.. s\ +Vn tiftirn 1 fi\t*f}ai- a in _ J*T A " . *' 
one whose duty is to catch or stop balls; spe- 
cifically, in base-ball, any one of the players in 
the field, and especially one of the three play- 
ers who stand behind and at the right and left 
respectively of second base. See base-ball. 2. 
A dog trained to the pursuit of game in the field. 
a battle ; an action : as, the field of Waterloo ; 
the field was held against all odds ; to show 
how fields are lost and won. 
This yere (1453) was a felde at St. Albons, bytuene the 
Kyuge and ye Duke of York. . . . This yere [1457] was a 
felde at Ludlow, and at Bloreheth. and a fray bytuene men 
of the Kingis hous and men of lawe. 
Arnold's Chronicle, p. xxxiv. 
I goe lyke one that, having lost the field, 
Is prisoner led away with heavy hart. 
Spenser, Sonnets, Hi. 
A Persian prince 
That won three fields of Sultan Solyman. 
Shak., M. of V., ii. 1. 
of the ancient officers of the royal forests in 
England, and of bailiffs of hundreds, whereby 
they compelled persons to contribute to the 
supply of their drink. 
Field-ale . . . [was] a kind of drinking in the field by 
bailiffs of hundreds, for which they gathered money of the 
inhabitants of the hundred to which they belonged. 
Rees, Cyc. 
field-allowance (feld'a-lou"ans), n. Milit., a 
small extra payment made to officers, and some- 
times to privates, on active service in the field, 
necessaries. 
What though the field be lost? field-artillery (feld'ar-tiFe-ri), 
All is not lost. Milton, P. L., i. 105. l er y. 
With his back to the field, and his feet to the foe. field-battery (feld'bat"er-i), fl. 
Campbell, Lochiel's Warning. 
[E. dial, also feldfare, 
felfare, felfer, etc. ; < ME. feldfare, feldefare, 
< AS. * feldefare (spelled feldeware in the single 
gloss in which it occurs: " Scorellus, clodham- 
er and feldeware, vel bugium"; cf. "scorellus, 
amore," i. e., yellow-hammer, q. y. ; bttgium, an 
obscure word, the name of a bird (fieldfare), 
mentioned along with the ruddock, goldfinch, 
lark, dove, etc.), <feld, field, + faran, fare, go. 
Not the same word, or bird, as often alleged, 
wit,hAS.feolufor,feolMfer,fealefor,feahu>r,fea1- 
water-fowl, glossed variously by L. onocrotalus 
See art*, 
A battery of 
field-guns, comprising 4 smooth-bore guns and 
12. The sphere or range of any connected series 2 howitzers, or 6 rifled or 6 12-pounder guns, 
of actions; a subject or class of subjects con- with their caissons, forge, and battery -wagon, 
cerning which observations or reflections are See field-gun. 
made; a class of connected objects toward field-bean (feld'ben), n. See bean'i, 2. 
which human energies are directed; the place field-bed (feld'bed), . A bed for the field; a 
where or that about which one busies himself: bed that may be easily set up in the field; a 
as, his field of operations was his counting- portable bed. 
house ; philology is an attractive field of re- field-bird (feld'berd), re. The American golden 
search ; a wide field of contemplation. plover. G. Trumbull. [Local, Maine, IT. S.] 
field-book (feld'buk), n. A book used in sur- 
veying, engineering, geology, etc., in which are 
The composition of AS. feolvfor, etc., is not 
clear.] The common English name of a Euro- 
The varied fields of science, ever new, 
Op'ning and wider op'ning on her view. 
Cowper, Table-Talk, 1. 264. 
In the vast field of criticism on which we are entering 
innumerable reapers have already put their sickles. 
Macaulay. 
The visual field is less identified with the danger field in 
the rabbit, the eyes of which are on different sides of the 
set down the angles, stations, distances, obser- 
vations, etc. 
The "Field Book" which contains the surveys and a 
Fieldfare ( Tnrdus pilaris 
record of the allotments made by the commissioners. 
Johns Hopkins Univ. Studies, IV. 47. 
pean thrush, Turdus pilariti, of the family Tur- 
didae, about 10 inches long, of a reddish-brown 
A bug of the genus color, with blackish tail and ashy head, a winter 
resident in Great Britain, breeding far north. 
It has many other names, besides the dialectal variants of 
fieldfare, derived from its color, cries, movements, etc., 
some of them shared by related species of British thrushes. 
sity of a mag 
a unit-pole will experience when placed in it. 
The electric field is the portion of space in the neighbor- 
hood of electrified bodies, considered with reference to 
electric phenomena. Clerk Maxwell, Elect, and Mag., 44. 
14. In sporting: (a) Those taking part in a 
hunt. 
The field moves off toward the cover. 
Christian Union, March 31, 1887. 
He com him-self y-charged with conyng & hares, 
With fesauns &feldfares and other foules grete. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 182. 
Winter birds, as woodcocks and fieldfares, if they come 
early out of the northern countries, with us shew cold 
winters. Bacon, Nat. Hist. 
head and have different fields, and which needs a strong field-bug (feld'bug), . 
stimulus to cause bilateral winking. Amer.Joar. Psychol. Pentatoma. 
13. In physics, a portion of space considered as field-carriage (feld'kar^aj), n. Any carriage 
traversed by equipotential surfaces and lines used to mount and transport a gun, ammunition, 
of force, so that at every point of it a force etc., belonging to a field-battery of artillery, 
would be exerted upon a particle placed there. Field codes. See code. 
This mode of expression and thought was originated by field-Colors (feld kuTorz), re. pi. MlM., flags 
Faraday, and is applied chiefly to electric and magnetic about a foot square, carried by markers in the 
forces. The intensity of a magnetic field is the force which figld or Qn tne parade-ground, to indicate the 
turning-points of a column, or the line to be 
occupied in the formation or deployment of a 
body of troops. The term is also applied to the dis- 
tinctive flags which designate the position of the head- , . . /*-u/ 11 \ 
quarters of a brigade, division, corps, or army, on the field-glass (lelci glas), n. 
march, in camp, or on the battle-field. The regimental 
flags carried in the fleld and on occasions of ceremony are 
sometimes so called in contradistinction to garrison flags, 
which are much Iarg8r*in size. 
(6) All the entries collectively against which a field-cornet (feld'kor"net), re. The magistrate 
single contestant has to compete : as, to back a of a township in Cape Colony, South Africa, 
crew against the field, (c) Specifically, all the field-cricket (f eld ' krik " et), re. An English 
contestants not individually favored in betting: name of Aclieta (or Gryllus) campestris. one of 
as, to bet on the field in a horse-race Afairfleld, the most noisy of all the crickets, larger but 
fortifica- 
(ton. Field of vision or view in general, the space over 
which objects can be discerned; the compass of visual 
ies, and sits at the mouth of the hole watching 
for prey, which consists of insects. See cut under Gryllus. 
The slow shrilling of the field-cricket in the grass. 
S. Lanier, Sci. of Eng. Verse, p. 33. 
Not yet the hawthorn bore her berries red, 
With which the field/are, wintry guest, is fed. 
Cowper, Needless Alarm. 
1. A kind of binoc- 
ular "telescope in the form of a large opera- 
glass, provided with a case slung from a strap, 
so that it can be conveniently carried. These 
glasses are used especially by military men and 
tourists. 2. A small achromatic telescope, 
usually from 20 to 24 inches long, and having 
from 3 to 6 joints of the kind known as tele- 
scopic. This is the older form of field-glass, and has 
now been almost wholly superseded for use on land by the 
binocular form described above, though it is still the more 
common form for marine service. 
3. That one of the two lenses forming the eye- 
piece of an astronomical telescope or of a com- 
pound microscope which is the nearer to the 
