Blindage: alternatives and connections

In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers.

To come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age…

The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees;…

The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.

To cover with a cap, or as with a cap; to provide with a cap or cover; to cover the top or end of; to place a cap upon the proper part…

A movable parapet, serving to support fascines to cover pioneers.

A coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial.

To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman.

Shelter; protection; as, the troops fought under cover of the batteries; the woods afforded a good cover.

Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control o…

All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover.

A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for prevent…

A side work, made of gabions, fascines, or bags, filled with earth, or of earth heaped up, to afford cover from the flanking fire of a…

The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the musc…

Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for season; as, the grass is forward, or forward for the season; we have a forward spring.

A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.

That branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portion…

A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the an…