Word Meanings - EDDISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. See Arrish.

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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.
• FIELDY
  Open, like a field. Wyclif.
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• FIELDED
  Engaged in the field; encamped. To help fielded friends. Shak.
• STUBBLED
  1. Covered with stubble. A crow was strutting o'er the stubbled plain. Gay. 2. Stubbed; as, stubbled legs. Skelton.
• FIELDEN
  Consisting of fields. The fielden country also and plains. Holland.
• FIELDFARE
  a small thrush which breeds in northern Europe and winters in Great Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare.
• FIELDER
  A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls.
• AFTERMATH
  A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen. Holland.
• FIELDWORK
  Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural. All works which do not come under the head of permanent fortification are called fieldworks. Wilhelm.
• ARRISH
  The stubble of wheat or grass; a stubble field; eddish. The moment we entered the stubble or arrish. Blackw. Mag.
• STUBBLE
  The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle. "After the first crop is off, they plow in the wheast stubble." Mortimer. Stubble goose , the graylag goose. Chaucer.
• HOMEFIELD
  Afield adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne.
• INFIELD
  To inclose, as a field.
• HAYFIELD
  A field where grass for hay has been cut; a meadow. Cowper.
• CORNFIELD
  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.
• GRAINFIELD
  A field where grain is grown.
• YARRISH
  Having a rough, dry taste.
• BRICKFIELDER
  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,
• AFIELD
  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.