n. An apparatus for hastening acetification. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A simple or compound principle, whose presence is necessary to produce acidity, as oxygen, chlorine, bromine, iodine, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + field. ] 1. To, in, or on the field. “We drove afield.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

How jocund did they drive their team afield! Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Out of the way; astray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why should he wander afield at the age of fifty-five! Trollope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a place where planes take off and land; an airport; -- usually used of airports other than those with regularly sheduled commercial flights, such as those at military bases or small fields for private aircraft.
Syn. -- landing field, flying field, field [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who or that which amplifies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) That which converts into a salifiable base. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a region where a battle is fought.
Syn. -- battleground, field of battle, field. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. (Roman Catholic Church) proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration.
Syn. -- blessed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who, or that which, beautifies or makes beautiful. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a place where bricks are made and sold.
Syn. -- brickyard. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Australia ] 1. Orig., at Sydney, a cold and violent south or southwest wind, rising suddenly, and regularly preceded by a hot wind from the north; -- now usually called southerly buster. It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney, and carried clouds of dust into the city. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. By confusion, a midsummer hot wind from the north. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Consisting of, or containing, calcareous matter or lime salts; calcareous. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Baseball) The part of the outfield directly ahead of the catcher.
Syn. -- center. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. endorsed authoritatively as having met certain requirements; guranteed; as, certified milk; certified mail; a certified check. Opposite of uncertified. [ Narrower terms: certificated, credentialed, documented; guaranteed ] See also certifiable. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. legally insane according to clinical criteria.
Syn. -- certifiable. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

3. holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill.
Syn. -- qualified. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a check drawn on a bank and bearing marks from that bank guaranteeing that funds have been reserved for payment. [ PJC ]

n. One who certifies or assures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a davenport with upright armrests. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a fitted overcoat with a velvet collar. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ City +-fy. ] Aping, or having, the manners of a city. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having the customs or manners or dress of city people.
Syn. -- citified. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. That which clarifies. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A vessel in which the process of clarification is conducted; as, the clarifier in sugar works. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. arranged into classes or categories; as, unclassified.
Syn. -- categorized. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. assigned to a class of documents withheld from general circulation; -- of information or documents. Opposite of unclassified. [ Narrower terms: eyes-only; confidential; restricted; secret; sensitive; top-secret ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who classifies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who codifies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A field where corn is or has been growing; -- in England, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in America, a field of Indian corn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cornu horn + -fy. ] (Anat.) Converted into horn; horny. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. [ Also spelled countryfied. ] Having the appearance and manners of a rustic; rude; as, countrified clothes. [ 1913 Webster ]

As being one who took no pride,
And was a deal too countrified. Lloyd. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. rendered in a manner resembling rural style; as, countrified rock music. [ PJC ]

3. unsophisticated. [ PJC ]

adj. same as countrified. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a European annual (Agrostemma githago) having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America.
Syn. -- corn cockle, corncockle, corn-cockle, corn campion, Agrostemma githago. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who crucifies; one who subjects himself or another to a painful trial. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Made up like a dandy; having the dress or manners of a dandy; buckish. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having a security classification removed so as to be open to public inspection; -- of documents or information. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See Defy. ] One who dares and defies; a contemner; as, a defier of the laws. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Honored or worshiped as a deity; treated with supreme regard; godlike. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who deifies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Marked with dignity; stately; as, a dignified judge. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. rendered ineligible by law or rule or provision; as, disqualified from voting. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Sports) barred from competition for violation of rules; as, a disqualified player. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. in a state of sulky dissatisfaction.
Syn. -- disgruntled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of aspects or objects; variegated; as, diversified scenery or landscape. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, diversifies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Sweetened; mollified. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dulcified spirit or
Dulcified spirits, a compound of alcohol with mineral acids; as, dulcified spirits of niter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who builds. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who edifies, builds up, or strengthens another by moral or religious instruction. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. ex- (intens.) + fierce. ] To make fierce. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enfierced p. pr. & vb. n. Enfiercing ] To make fierce. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who exemplifies by following a pattern. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who falsifies, or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance; a liar. [ 1913 Webster ]

interj. [ OE. fi; cf. D. fif. G. pfui, Icel. f&unr_;, Sw. & Dan. fy, F. fi, L. fi, phy. ] An exclamation denoting contempt or dislike. See Fy. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. fief; of German origin, and the same word as E. fee. See Fee, and cf. Feud, a tief. ] (Law) An estate held of a superior on condition of military service; a fee; a feud. See under Benefice, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Ball Playing) To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Fielded; p. pr. & vb. n. Fielding. ] 1. To take the field. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Ball Playing) To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. feld, fild, AS. feld; akin to D. veld, G. feld, Sw. fält, Dan. felt, Icel. fold field of grass, AS. folde earth, land, ground, OS. folda. ] 1. Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fields which promise corn and wine. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

In this glorious and well-foughten field. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

What though the field be lost? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An open space; an extent; an expanse. Esp.: (a) Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected. (b) The space covered by an optical instrument at one view; as, wide-field binoculars. [ 1913 Webster + PJC ]

Without covering, save yon field of stars. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ask of yonder argent fields above. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Her.) The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver). [ 1913 Webster ]

6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room. [ 1913 Webster ]

Afforded a clear field for moral experiments. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Sports) An open, usually flat, piece of land on which a sports contest is played; a playing field; as, a football field; a baseball field.
Syn. -- playing field, athletic field, playing area. [ PJC ]

8. Specifically: (Baseball) That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A geographic region (land or sea) which has some notable feature, activity or valuable resource; as, the diamond fields of South Africa; an oil field; a gold field; an ice field. [ WordNet 1.6 ]

10. A facility having an airstrip where airplanes can take off and land; an airfield.
Syn. -- airfield, landing field, flying field, aerodrome. [ WordNet 1.6 ]

11. A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting. [ 1913 Webster ]

12. A branch of knowledge or sphere of activity; especially, a learned or professional discipline; as, she's an expert in the field of geology; in what field did she get her doctorate?; they are the top company in the field of entertainment.
Syn. -- discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field of study, study, branch of knowledge. [ WordNet 1.6 ]

Within the master text files of this electronic dictionary, where a word is used in a specific sense in some specialized field of knowledge, that field is indicated by the tags: () preceding that sense of the word. [ PJC ]

13. A location, usually outdoors, away from a studio or office or library or laboratory, where practical work is done or data is collected; as, anthropologists do much of their work in the field; the paleontologist is in the field collecting specimens. Usually used in the phrase
in the field. [ WordNet 1.6 ]

14. (Physics) The influence of a physical object, such as an electrically charged body, which is capable of exerting force on objects at a distance; also, the region of space over which such an influence is effective; as, the earth's gravitational field; an electrical field; a magnetic field; a force field. [ PJC ]

15. (Math.) A set of elements within which operations can be defined analagous to the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division on the real numbers; within such a set of elements addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1; a commutative division ring; as, the set of all rational numbers is a field. [ WordNet 1.6 ]

☞ Field is often used adjectively in the sense of belonging to, or used in, the fields; especially with reference to the operations and equipments of an army during a campaign away from permanent camps and fortifications. In most cases such use of the word is sufficiently clear; as, field battery; field fortification; field gun; field hospital, etc. A field geologist, naturalist, etc., is one who makes investigations or collections out of doors. A survey uses a field book for recording field notes, i.e., measurement, observations, etc., made in field work (outdoor operations). A farmer or planter employs field hands, and may use a field roller or a field derrick. Field sports are hunting, fishing, athletic games, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Coal field (Geol.) See under Coal. --
Field artillery, light ordnance mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army. --
Field basil (Bot.), a plant of the Mint family (Calamintha Acinos); -- called also basil thyme. --
Field colors (Mil.), small flags for marking out the positions for squadrons and battalions; camp colors. --
Field cricket (Zool.), a large European cricket (Gryllus campestric), remarkable for its loud notes. --
Field day. (a) A day in the fields. (b) (Mil.) A day when troops are taken into the field for instruction in evolutions. Farrow. (c) A day of unusual exertion or display; a gala day. --
Field driver, in New England, an officer charged with the driving of stray cattle to the pound. --
Field duck (Zool.), the little bustard (Otis tetrax), found in Southern Europe. --
Field glass. (Optics) (a) A binocular telescope of compact form; a lorgnette; a race glass. (b) A small achromatic telescope, from 20 to 24 inches long, and having 3 to 6 draws. (c) See Field lens. --
Field lark. (Zool.) (a) The skylark. (b) The tree pipit. --
Field lens (Optics), that one of the two lenses forming the eyepiece of an astronomical telescope or compound microscope which is nearer the object glass; -- called also field glass. --
Field madder (Bot.), a plant (Sherardia arvensis) used in dyeing. --
Field marshal (Mil.), the highest military rank conferred in the British and other European armies. --
Field officer (Mil.), an officer above the rank of captain and below that of general. --
Field officer's court (U.S.Army), a court-martial consisting of one field officer empowered to try all cases, in time of war, subject to jurisdiction of garrison and regimental courts. Farrow. --
Field plover (Zool.), the black-bellied plover (Charadrius squatarola); also sometimes applied to the Bartramian sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda). --
Field spaniel (Zool.), a small spaniel used in hunting small game. --
Field sparrow. (Zool.) (a) A small American sparrow (Spizella pusilla). (b) The hedge sparrow. [ Eng. ] --
Field staff (Mil.), a staff formerly used by gunners to hold a lighted match for discharging a gun. --
Field vole (Zool.), the European meadow mouse. --
Field of ice, a large body of floating ice; a pack. --
Field, or
Field of view, in a telescope or microscope, the entire space within which objects are seen. --
Field magnet. see under Magnet. --
Magnetic field. See Magnetic. --
To back the field, or
To bet on the field. See under Back, v. t. --
To keep the field. (a) (Mil.) To continue a campaign. (b) To maintain one's ground against all comers. --
To lay against the field or
To back against the field, to bet on (a horse, etc.) against all comers. --
To take the field (Mil.), to enter upon a campaign. [ 1913 Webster ]