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Materiel :: Materiel (n.) That in a complex system which constitutes the materials, or instruments employed, in distinction from the personnel, or men; as, the baggage, munitions, provisions, etc., of an army; or the buildings, libraries, and apparatus of a college, in distinction from its officers..

Chaplain :: Chaplain (n.) A clergyman who is officially attached to the army or navy, to some public institution, or to a family or court, for the purpose of performing divine service..

Rank :: Rank (n. & v.) Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral..

Ban :: Ban (n.) A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army..

Battalion :: Battalion (n.) A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array.

Sutlership :: Sutler (n.) A person who follows an army, and sells to the troops provisions, liquors, and the like..

Ration :: Ration (n.) A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence..

Forbid :: Forbid (v. t.) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army..

Column :: Column (n.) A small army.

Annoy :: Annoy (n.) To molest, incommode, or harm; as, to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade..

Volunteer :: Volunteer (a.) One who enters into service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers; -- opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing army..

Large :: Large (superl.) Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; great; capacious; extensive; -- opposed to small; as, a large horse; a large house or room; a large lake or pool; a large jug or spoon; a large vineyard; a large army; a large city..

Herald :: Herald (n.) An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character..

Barton :: Barton (n.) A farmyard.

Estafette :: Estafette (n.) A courier who conveys messages to another courier; a military courier sent from one part of an army to another.

Avant-guard :: Avant-guard (n.) The van or advanced body of an army. See Vanguard.

Strengthen :: Strengthen (v. t.) To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority..

Pickeer :: Pickeer (v. i.) To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon..

Capitulate :: Capitulate (n.) To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates..

Onset :: Onset (n.) A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army..

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