| attack |
to set upon with vigor. [1/9 definitions] |
| beset |
to set upon or assail from all sides; besiege. [1/2 definitions] |
| bivouac |
to set up or stay in a bivouac. [1/2 definitions] |
| cadre |
in the military, a core group of experienced personnel who can set up and train a new unit. [1/2 definitions] |
| camp1 |
an outdoor area where tents or shelters are set up to live in for a time. [1/3 definitions] |
| encamp |
to set up, or take lodging in, a camp. [1/2 definitions] |
| encampment |
a place where a camp has been set up. [1/2 definitions] |
| ferry |
a business set up to carry people, vehicles, and other things across a bay, river, lake, or channel by boat or ship. [1/6 definitions] |
| field hospital |
a hospital-like facility set up for emergency treatment of soldiers near the fighting zone. |
| fix |
(informal) to set up through cheating so as to get what one wants. [1/7 definitions] |
| found2 |
to set up or create; establish. |
| gill net |
a net set upright in the water in order to catch fish by the gills. |
| hobbyhorse |
a toy horse set upon rockers; rocking horse. [1/3 definitions] |
| hot line |
a direct communication system set up for use in times of emergency or crisis, esp. between heads of government. [1/2 definitions] |
| institute |
an organization set up to provide a service or support a cause. [1/4 definitions] |
| institution |
a public organization set up for a specific purpose. Hospitals, churches, prisons, and schools are examples of institutions. |
| kangaroo court |
an unauthorized court, such as one set up by prison inmates or strikers, that often disregards or parodies normal legal procedures. |
| let |
in mathematics, used to propose that something be accepted as true in order to set up a problem or demonstrate a principle. [1/8 definitions] |
| mail1 |
the system set up to send and deliver letters, packages and other items; postal system. [1/4 definitions] |
| make sail |
to set up the sails or change their number or direction to catch the wind's force better. |
| Medgar Evers |
American civil rights activist during the 1950s and early sixties. Evers worked to desegregate Mississippi schools, set up voter registration drives, helped organize economic boycotts of white businesses engaging in discrimination, and investigated crimes against black citizens. He was assassinated by a member of a white supremacist group in 1963. (b. 1925--d. 1963). |