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That hills and valleys, dale and field , 
And all the craggy mountains yield. Raleigh. 
Ground not enclcfed.— Field lands are not exempted from 
mildews, nor yet from fmut,- where it is more than in 
inclofed lands. Mortimer. —Cultivated tract of ground : 
Or great Ofiris who firft taught the fwain 
In Pharian fields to fovv the golden grain. Pope. 
The open country; oppofed to lioufe or quarters. The 
ground of battle.—When a man is in the field, a moderate 
(kill in fencing rather expofes him to the fword of his 
enemy, than fecures him from it. Locke. —A battle'; a 
campaign ; the adtion of an army while it keeps the field : 
You maintain feveral factions; 
And while a field fhould be difpatch’d and fought, 
You are difputing of your generals. Shakefpeare. 
A wide expanfe : 
The god a clearer fpace for heaven defign’d ; 
Where fields of light and liquid ether flow, 
Purg’d from the pond’rous dregs of earth below. Dry den. 
Space ; -cpmpafs ; extent.—'The ill natured man gives 
himfelf a large field to expatiate in; he expofes failings 
in human nature. Addifun. — 1 fhould enter upon a field 
too w ide, if 1 fhould difplay all the advantages of peace. 
Sinai ridge. 
Who can this field of miracles furvey 
And not with Galen all in rapture fay, 
Behold a God, adore him, and obey. Blackmore. 
The ground or blank fpace on which figures are drawn. 
■—Let the field or ground of the picture be clear, light, 
and well united with colour. Dryden. —[In heraldry.] 
The furfuce of a fiiield. 
FIELD (Richard), a learned divine of the church of 
England, born at Hempfted, in Hertfordfhire, in 1561. 
He was lent to Oxford in 1577, and admitted a member 
of Magdalen-college, from which he removed to Mag- 
dalen-hall, where for about feven years he delivered lec¬ 
tures in logic and philofophy, and on Sundays catecheti¬ 
cal lectures, which were attended by many learned mem¬ 
bers of the univerfity, belonging to other colleges. At 
this time he was efteemed one of the ablc-ft difputants in 
Oxford. Afterwards he became divinity reader fora time 
in the cathedral church at Winchefter; and, in 1594, when 
he had taken his degree of bachelor in divinity, was chofen 
divinity reader to the honourable fociety of Lincoln’s- 
jnn, in London. In that fituation his fc-rvices and man¬ 
ners gained him numerous admirers among the learned 
members* one of whom, without any foliciration, pre- 
fented him to the valuable living of Burghclere, in Hamp- 
fhire. In 1598, being then doctor of divinity, he was 
made chaplain in ordinary to queen Elizabeth, and foon 
afterwards prebendary of Windfor. Soon after the accef- 
fion of James I. Dr. Field was appointed chaplain in or¬ 
dinary to his majefty, and was included in fpecial com- 
miflions that were ilTiied for ecclefiaftical caufes, and the 
exercife of fpiritual jurifdidtion within the diocefe of 
AVinchefter. In 1604, he was nominated canon of Wind¬ 
for; and, in the following year, when the king w-as to be 
entertained at Oxford, he was fent for to take a part in 
the divinity act. The manner in which he acquitted him¬ 
felf on that occafion, reflected great credit on his learn¬ 
ing and acutenefs, and afforded uncommon fatisfadtion to 
the f p lend id a,.d learned audience. In 1606, Dr. Field 
publilhed, at London, that work on which his fame de¬ 
pends with potlerity. Its title is, Of the Church, four 
Books, folio; to which, in 1610, he added a fifth, with 
an appendix, containing A Defence of fuch Palfages of 
the formdr Books that have been excepted againft, or 
wrefted to the Maintenance of the Romifh Errors. They 
were afterwards reprinted at Oxford, in 1628. By this 
performance, Dr. Field fecured among his contempora¬ 
ries the higheft reputation for extenfive learning, and nice 
cafuiftical knowledge;, and was often confulted by per- 
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fons of elevated rank in the church, on difficult ecclefi¬ 
aftical and theological queftions. About the year 1610, 
the king bellowed upon him the deanery of Gloucefler. 
Dr. Field was alfo intended for the fee of Oxford'; but 
he was fuddenly carried off by an apoplexy, in iGi6 , in 
bis fifty-fifth year. A little before his death he had partly 
compofed, but not finifhed, a work entitled A View of 
the Controvcrfies in Religion, which in thefe laft Times 
have caufed the lamentable Divifions of the Chriflian 
AVorld. 
FIELD OF VIEW, or of Vision, in optics, the whole 
fpace or extent within which objedts can be feen through 
an optical machine, or at one view of the eye without 
turning it. The precife limits of this fpace are not 
ea(11 y afeertained for the natural view of the eye. In 
looking at a fmall diflance, we have an imperfedt glimpfe 
of o'ojedts through almoft the extent of a hemifphere, or 
at lead for above fixtv degrees each way from the optic 
axis; but, towards the extremity of this fpace, objects 
are very imperfedtly ieen ; and the diameter of the field 
of diftindt vifion does not fubtend an angle of more tlian 
five degrees at moft, fo that the diameter uf a diftindt iniage 
on the retina is lefs than of an inch; but it is pro¬ 
bably much lefs. 
FIELD-BA'SIL. See Thymus Acinos. 
FIELD BED,/! A bed contrived to be fet up eafily 
in the field : 
Romeo, good night; I’ll to my truckle bed, 
This field-bed is too cold for me to deep. Shakefpeare. 
FIELD-BOOK,/! The book which furveyors ufe in 
the field in taking down their angles and didances. 
FIELD-COLOURS, f. among military men, fmall 
flags carried along with the quarter-mader-general, in 
marking out tire ground for the fquadrons and battalions 
of an army. 
FIELD-FORT,/", in fortification, a fort towards the 
field ; a fort thrown up in the field. 
FIELD-MAD'DER. See Skekardia. 
FIELD-MARSHAL,/’. Commander of an army. 
FIELD-MOUSE,/'. [ nitedula, Lat.] A moufe that bur¬ 
rows in banks, and makes her hoiife with various apart¬ 
ments. See Mus.—The ficld-mcufe builds her garner 
under ground. Dryden. 
FIELD-OFFICER,/! An officer w.hofe command in 
the field extends to a whole regiment: as the colonel, 
licutenantX’olonel, and major. 
FIELD-PIECE, adj. Small cannon tiled in battles.— 
The baffit, planting Iris field-pieces upon the hills, did from 
thence grievoufly annoy tlie defendants. Knollcs. 
FIELD-PREACHING,/! Preaching a fetmon in a 
field or open place : 
No canting, no fly jefuitical arts. 
Field-preaching , hypocrify, learning, or parts. Cambridge. 
FIELD-SPORTS,/. Diverfions of (hooting and hunt¬ 
ing.—All gaming, field-fports, and fuch fort ofamufements, 
I look upon as frivolous. Chejlerfie/d. 
FIELD-STAFF, f. A ftatf carried by gunners, in 
which they ferevv lighted matches. 
FIELD-WORK,/! in fortification, a work thrown up 
on any emergence. 
EIELD'ED, adj. Being in field of battle : 
Now, Mars, I pry’thee, make us quick in work; 
That we v* ith Looking fwords may march from hence, 
To help our fielded friends. Shakefpeare. 
FIELD'FARE,/! [pelb and papian, Sax. to wander in 
the fields ; lu'rdus pilaris, Lat.] A ipecies of the migrating 
thruffi. See Turdus. —Winter birds, as woodcocks and 
fieldfares, if they come early out of the northern countries, 
with us fhew cold winters. Bacon. 
FIEL'DING (Henry), a writer diflinguiflied for his 
humour and knowledge of mankind, born in 1707, at 
Sharpham, near Glultunbury. His father, a defeendant 
front the noble family of-Fielding, was a military officer, 
and 
