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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.

 

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