Word Meanings - ARMYORGANIZATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The system by which a country raises, classifies, arranges, and equips its armed land forces. The usual divisions are: (1) A regular or active army, in which soldiers serve continuously with the colors and live in barracks or cantonments when not in the field; (2) the reserves of this army, in which the soldiers, while remaining constantly subject to a call to the colors, live at their homes, being summoned more or less frequently to report for instruction, drill, or maneuvers; and (3) one or more classes of soldiers organized largely for territorial defense, living at home and having only occasional periods of drill and instraction, who are variously called home reserves (as in the table below), second, third, etc., line of defense (the regular army and its reserves ordinarily constituting the first line of defense), territorial forces, or the like. In countries where conscription prevails a soldier is supposed to serve a given number of years. He is usually enrolled first in the regular army, then passes to its reserve, then into the home reserves, to serve until he reaches the age limit. It for any reason he is not enrolled in the regular army, he may begin his service in the army reserves or even the home reserves, but then serves the full number of years or up to the age limit. In equipment the organization of the army is into the three great arms of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, together with more or less numerous other branches, such as engineers, medical corps, etc., besides the staff organizations such as those of the pay and subsistence departments.

• Behind
  On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill.
• Betook
  of Betake
• Systemizing
  of Systemize
• Bear's-paw
  A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament.
• Bellon
  Lead colic.
• Bewray
  To soil. See Beray.
• BEAUIDEAL
  A conception or image of consummate beauty, moral or physical, formed in the mind, free from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model.
• Bedewed
  of Bedew
• Beneficiary
  Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession.
• Great-grandchild
  The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREATWHITEWAY
  Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about 30th Street about 50th Street; -- so called from its brilliant illumination at night.
• Befogging
  of Befog
• Berna fly
  A Brazilian dipterous insect of the genus Trypeta, which lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast, where the larvae do great injury.
• Regularia
  A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
• Arminianism
  The religious doctrines or tenets of the Arminians.
• Behowl
  To howl at.
• Bethlehem
  A hospital for lunatics; -- corrupted into bedlam.
• Tablemen
  of Tableman
• Beatificate
  To beatify.
• Bellyache
  Pain in the bowels; colic.

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