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commandant 91 commissaire
commandant superieur de la defense, (Fr. a.)
c. o. of a group of forts, charged with preparation
of plans for the defense of the same,
with questions of supply, etc. (as a rule, is a
general officer);
superieur de la region, (Fr. a.) the c. o. or
governor of a placed, camp retranche,'
territorial, (Fr. a., etc.) c. o. of a district, i. e.
general of division, of brigade, etc., under the
authority of the corps commander,
commando, f., (cord.) lashing; (mach.) driver,
feed, controlling gear or device; operation,
working, control;
de , (mach.) working, operating, controlling
(a motion or mechanism, etc.);
de billot, (pont.) rack-stick lashing;
de brelage, (pont.) back lashing;
& cinematique, (mach.) kinematically controlled;
a desmodromique, (mach., etc.) controlled,
operated, by belts, straps, or bands;
a directe, (mach.) direct acting;
de guindage, (pont.) side-rail lashing;
de pontage, (pont.) balk lashing;
de poutrelle, (pont.) balk lashing.
command^, a., (mil.) ordered, detailed, told
off for duty;
de service, detailed for duty.
command emeiit, m., (mil.) command (at drill);
military authority in general; command,
i. e., all that relates to the commanding author-
ity, as functions, duties, etc.; (more especially)
the commanding authority, those in command,
(and hence, sometimes) the commanding
officer, (and even) the suoreme commanding
authority in the army; command, as
applied to a district, to duties; control, as
over a line in action; (fort.) command (by
a position, of a position). (Commandement
is applied particularly in France to marshals
and to corps commanders; it may also
mean the territory or troops under one and
the same commander, just as we say "command
" in more or less the same way);
absolu, (jort.) height of crest of a work
above work or territory commanded, i. e.,
the difference of level of the points, etc., considered;
d'avertissement, (drill) warning command,
cautionary command;
avoir le . sur. (mil.) to rank, take precedence
of; to have military authority over;
Mton de , marshal's baton;
centre de , central authority;
en chef, (mil.) command exercised in virtue
of powers conferred by the executive; (in
gen.) command in chief;
au clairon, (drill) command given by bugle;
couvnr le , to drown the commands (of
noise);
^defensif, (fort) command furnishing protection
from hostile fire;
d'etapes, (mil.) the personnel of a gtte
d'etapes, q. v.;
d' 'execution, (drill) command of execution;
faible, (fort.) command of less than 6 meters;
de gare, (mil.) board composed of a military
c. o. and of a station master, on duty in stations
beyond the stations de transition, cares
for sick and wounded, expedites transports,
hierarchique, (mil.) command exercised in
one's grade by virtue of one's commission or
warrant;
ad latus, (mil.) state of being second in
command;
lettre de , (Fr. a.) letter of appointment to
command;
marque de , (mil.) distinguishing mark of
a c. o., e. g a headquarters flag;
offensif, (fort.) command permitting fire at
an enemy or into an enemy's work, state of having
crests commanded by crests of work in rear
(of a general system of works) ; command permitting
fire to be delivered on an enemy in
front;
commandement priparatoire, (drill) preparatory
command;
rasant, v. faiblc;
rclatifd'un point sur un plan, (fort.) the vertical
height of a point above the plane;
remettre le , (mil.) to turn over the command;
en second, v. ad latus;
au sifflet, (drill) command by whistle;
tourelle de , (nav.) conning tower;
& la voix, (drill) command by word of mouth.
commander, v. a., (mil.) to command, to order;
to detail, tell off, to warn (for guard, or any
other duty); (fort.) to dominate, to command;
(mach.) to drive, to work, to operate, to
control;
se , (mach.) to be controlled, to gear together,
to work together (said of parts that gear or
work together);
l'exercice l (mil.) to give the commands at
drill, to be in command, in charge, at drill;
la manreuvre, (mil.) v. I'exercice;
de piquet, (mil.) to detail, so as to be ready
at a moment's notice;
le service, (mil.) to keep the roster of regular
routine duties, to make details for the regular
routine.
command enr, m., third grade in Legion of Honor;
commander (of an order).
comme c.a! (in command) steady! so!
commencer, v. a., to begin, commence;
le feu, (mil.) to begin firing, to open the
action, to open fire.
commensal, m., mess-mate.
commettage, m., (cord.) lay of a rope; ropelaying;
laying up of yarn to make a strand;
atelier de , ropewalk;
d 140 %, etc., laying in the ratio of 140 meters .
etc., of strand to 100 meters, etc., of rope;
au m / n , laying so that m meters of strand
shall form n meters of rope (m>n).
commettre, v. a., to intrust, commit; (cord.) to
lay, lay up;
& 140%, (cord.) to lay so that 140 meters of
strand shall make 100 meters of rope;
au m / n to , lay so that m of strand shall form
n of rope (m>n);
en aussiere, to lay hawser fashion;
deuxfois, to lay cablewise;
de droitefi gauche, to lay up against the sun,
cablewise, left-handed;
en garochoir.to lay up the wrong way;
de gauche & droite, to lay hawser fashion, with
the sun, right-handed;
en grelin, to lay cablewise;
de main torse, to lay the wrong way;
au quart, to lay soft (twisted one-quarter);
en quatre, to lay up in four strands, shroud
fashion;
en queue de rat, to point a rope;
au, en, tiers, to lay up hard (twisted
one-third);
en toron, to lay hawserwise;
en trois, to lay up in three strands.
commis, p. p., (cord.) laid, laid up, v. commettre^
empowered, delegated, appointed.
commis, m., clerk;
aux icritures, (mil.) cjterk of the administration;
general-service clerk (U. S. A.);
greffier, (Fr. mil. law) clerk in the archives
or record offices of courts-martial;
de la guerre, (mil.) subordinate clerk of the
war department;
et ouvriers d' administration, ( Fr. a.) artisans,
mechanics, etc., and clerks, enlisted as such,
and organized into 25 sections for the military
service (v. section).
commissaire, m., commissioner, member of a
commission; (nav.) paymaster;
aide , ( Fr. nav.) assistant paymaster;
adjoint, (Fr. nav.) passed assistant paymaster;
ve , (Fr. nav.) cadet paymaster (n. e.,