The gentleman's dictionary. In three parts, viz. I. The art of riding the great horse. II. The military art. III. The art of navigation / Each part done alphabetically, from the sixteenth edition of the original French. Published by the Sieur Guillet. With large additions, alterations and improvements, adapted to the customs and actions of the English.

Date:
1705
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Credit: The gentleman's dictionary. In three parts, viz. I. The art of riding the great horse. II. The military art. III. The art of navigation / Each part done alphabetically, from the sixteenth edition of the original French. Published by the Sieur Guillet. With large additions, alterations and improvements, adapted to the customs and actions of the English. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [peHive, is a Greeff Word, figni- only the diftance between the fyiog properly the Figure or Print Tents is abrut 3 or 4 ,yards for which the foie of the Foot leaves the Ferrage, and the fpace be- pn the ground, which the Greeks tween two Troopers, is 14 or if call Icbnos. Among.fl Architects, yards for the Stables : At two it is the Se&ion of a Building yards diftance from the Doors of cut horizontally near the Ground, their Tents, is a Rope called the 3Tis likewife what we call a Plan: Picket R.ope flmtehed upon point- So the Plan or Ichnography of a ed Stakes, to which their Horjes Church, is the Mark left by this are tied. For the Ground al- Cburcb, if it were razed 5 or the lowed a Battalion or Squadron-» firft appearance in Building4when lee Camp the Foundation is ready to appear INCAMPMENT, fee Camp. above ground. The Ichnography I N DE N TH D-L I N E , is a of a Cube, or gaming Dye, is a Line running out and in, like the Square; and that of a right Cy- Teeth of a Saw, forming fevera] Under, is a Circle. See Plan. Angles, fo that one fide defends INC AMP; To Incamp, is the another; they are ufed on the pitching of Tents when the Army banks of Rivers where they enter after a.March is come to a place a Town, likewife the Parapet of where it is defigned to Ray a the Covert Way is often indented, night or longer; the Serjeants Tents This is by the French Engineers In the Foot , and the Quarter- called Redents ; ifnall Places are Mafters of Horfe^re the firft of the fometimes fortify’d with inch a Company or Troop ; the Officers in- Line, but the fault of fuch Forti- camp in the Rear, the Subalterns ffications, is that the Befiegers from in one Line next the Company one Battery may ruia both the fronting from it, the Captains in tides of the Tenaille or Front of a another Line at fome diftance, Place, and make an AiTault, with- each behind his own Company out fear of being enfiladed, face fronting the Subalterns ; the Field the Defences are ruined. Officers behind them, the Colonel INDEPENDANT Troop or in the Centre , the Lieutenant- Company, is what is not incorpo- Colenel on his Right , the Ma- rated into any Regiment. W Aon his Left, and the Sutlers INFANTRY, are the Regs peinnd all. FachCcmpany makes ments or Independent Companies of f Line in File, having an Al- Foot in an Army, they are formed |owanreof 7 foot for a Tent, and into Brigades, as the Cavalry are ; a loot diftancé ; the Tents ot each Brigade confifting of 4, 54 two Companies front one another, or 6 Battalions ; the Regiments of leaving a Street of five or fix Foot Guards take the Poft of all yards betwixt them* i he Troops the Infantry in the Army ; the of Horfe incamp the fame way, other Regiments take Poft by Sent*