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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Milit., the art of drawing up an army or body of men in a geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mil.) The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
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Gone, But Not Forgotten...Yet
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
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reesetee I'd venture to guess that it's obsolete because no one knew how to pronounce the darn thing without tripping over it and slamming on the mouth-brakes. Sep 3, 2008
chained_bear Is it obsolete because all those people finally figured out that standing around waiting for someone to estimate their number was really boring? (Or because serfdom was abolished?) Sep 3, 2008
reesetee (Obsolete) The art of drawing up an army or body of people in a given geometrical figure, and of estimating the number of people contained in such a figure.
Who knew? :-) Sep 3, 2008