The universal etymological English dictionary, المجلد 2J. and J. Knapton, D. Midwinter and A. Ward, A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch [and 8 others], 1731 - 944 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 122 - All numbered cavalry and infantry regiments, except the lifeguards, foot-guards, and dragoon-guards, belong to the line. A " line of battle " is when the army is so drawn up that the front extends as far as the ground will allow, to prevent its being flanked. There are three linee, the van, the main body, and the rear. A fleet drawn up in ¿in« of battle is so arranged that the ships are ahead and astern of each other at equal distances.
الصفحة 155 - It was more important in the boys' esteem than even the wooden woman, who had a sword in one hand and a pair of scales in the other.
الصفحة 104 - Figure is faid to be infcribed in another, when all the Angles of the Figure infcribed touch either the Angles, Sides, or Planes of the other Figure.
الصفحة 118 - LEAF, a part of a plant extended into length and breadth in fuch a manner as to have one fide diftinguifhable from the other. This is Miller's definition. Linnaeus denominates leaves " the organs of motion, or mufcles of the plant.
الصفحة 126 - FORTIFICATION. LUNETTE, in the manege, is a half horse-shoe, or such a shoe as wants the sponge, ie that part of the branch which runs towards the quarters of the foot. LUNETTE is also the name of two small pieces of felt, made round and hollow, to clap upon the eyes of a vicious horse that is apt to bite, and strike with his fore feet, or that will not suffer his rider to mount him.
الصفحة 112 - Bannaret, and causes the point of his pennon to be rent off; and the new knight, having the trumpets before him sounding, the nobles and officers accompanying him, is remitted to his tent, where they are nobly entertained.