Word Meanings - AFIELD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To, in, or on the field. "We drove afield." Milton. How jocund did they drive their team afield! Gray. 2. Out of the way; astray. Why should he wander afield at the age of fifty-five! Trollope.
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- FIELD
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 , while the fess is argent . 6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity - FIELDING
The act of playing as a fielder. - SHOULDER
The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the - SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak. - WANDERMENT
The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall. - DRIVEL
To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym: - DRIVE
To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by - FIELDY
Open, like a field. Wyclif. - ASTRAY
Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray. Ye were as sheep going astray. 1 Pet. ii. 25. - SHOULDERED
Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer. - WANDEROO
A large monkey native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo. Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other - DROVEN
of Drive. - FIELDPIECE
A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun. - WANDERINGLY
In a wandering manner. - DRIVER
A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: The driving wheel of a locomotive. - TROLLOPEE
A kind of loose dress for women. Goldsmith. - DRIVEWAY
A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven. - FIELDED
Engaged in the field; encamped. To help fielded friends. Shak. - DRIVEBOLT
A drift; a tool for setting bolts home. - DRIVEN
of Drive. Also adj. Driven well, a well made by driving a tube into the earth to an aqueous stratum; -- called also drive well. - HOMEFIELD
Afield adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne. - HUMP-SHOULDERED
Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne. - FORWANDER
To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness. - INFIELD
To inclose, as a field. - FORDRIVE
To drive about; to drive here and there. Rom. of R. - FULL-DRIVE
With full speed. - HOME-DRIVEN
Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close.