BEARER  , strictly " one who carries," a See also:

• TERM

term used in See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India for a See also:

• PALANQUIN (pronounced palankeen, a form in which it is sometimes spelled)

palanquin-bearer, and now especially for a See also:

• BODY

body-servant . The term is also used in connexion with military ambulances, and " bearer " companies formed See also:

• PART

part of the Royal See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

Army Medical See also:

• CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat. corpus, a body; cf. " corpse ")

Corps until amalgamated with the See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field-hospitals to See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form field-ambulances (1905) . In banking and See also:

• COMMERCE
• COMMERCE (Lat. commercium, from, cum, together, and rnerx, merchandise)

commerce the word is applied to the holder or presenter of a See also:

• CHEQUE, or CHECK

cheque or draft not made payable to a specific See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person; it has also a technical use, as iri See also:

• PRINTING (from Lat. imprimere, O. Fr. empreindre)

printing, of anything that supports pressure in machinery, &c .