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.