Word Meanings - INFIELD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To inclose, as a field.

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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.
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• INCLOSE
  Etym: 1. To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls. How many evils have inclosed me round! Milton. 2. To put within a case,
• FIELDED
  Engaged in the field; encamped. To help fielded friends. Shak.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• DISINCLOSE
  To free from being inclosed.
• OUTFIELD
  The part of the field beyond the diamond, or infield. It is occupied by the fielders. (more info) 1. Arable land which has been or is being exhausted. See Infield, 1. 2. A field beyond, or separated from, the inclosed land about the homestead;