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adjoint
adjoint au chef de corps, first lieutenant (inf.) detailed
to assit commanding officer;
du genie, military employee of engineer
service, takes an oath of service. They are:
principal de lere classe, with rank of major;
de lere classe, rank of captain; de 2eme
classe, rank of lieutenant; de 3me classe,
rank of sub-lieutenant;
officier
d, I'habillement, assistant of capitaine
d'habillement, q. v.;
d I'intendance militaire, functionary of the
intendance, q. v., either a captain or an officier
d'intendance, q. v.;
au tresorier, assistant of capitaine tresorier,
q.v.
adjudant, m., (Fr. a.) ranking n. c. o. of a company,
troop, or battery (n. e.);
- de bataillon, assisted the adjudant-major
;. S. A., suppressed in 1893);
capitaine major, adjutant (almost the same
as battalion adjutant);
de casernement, has charge of lights, bedding,
etc., in barracks;
de compagnie, assists the captain (somewhat
like first sergeant, U. S. A.);
eleve d' administration, (adm.) n. c. o. graduated
from Ecole d'administration and graded as
adjudant in the bureaux of the administration
until promoted;
d'etat-rrMjor, one belonging to the petit etatmajor,
q. v.; assists adjvAant-major;
de la garnison, officer who assists the major
de la garnison (q. v.) in a place de guerre;
general, used by Marbot as equivalent to
colonel d'etat-major; sometimes (formerly) used
for aide-de-camp;
major, battalion adjutant, adjutant;
de pavilion, (nav.) flag-lieutenant;
de place, assistant of c. o. in places de guerre,
suppressed in 1875;
principal, ( Fr. nav.) functionary attached to
each of the five divisions of the personnel ofthe
fleet;
sous-offider, highest ranking in n. e. o.
vaguemestre, adjudant who performs duties of
vaguemestre, q. v.
adjudantur, m., (mil.) the German adjutantur.
adjudicataire, m., bidder, lowest or highest bidder;
person who gets a contract.
adjudication, f., adjudication; assignment of contract;
precldee d'une stance preparatoire, award in
which admissibility of contractor is made
known to him after a meeting of the commission
d'admission (case requiring contractor of assured
responsibility) ;
simple, award made in open meeting before
competing contractors, whose soundness is
taken for granted by the fact of their presence;
par voied'encheres, assignment of government
property (e. g.. condemned horses) to highest
. bidder;
par vole des soumissions, assignment of contract
to lowest bidder (the government buys).
administrateur, m., administrator; any person
having administrative duties; ( Fr. a.) person or
functionary who has administrative duties
and reports directly to the minister of war (not
a strictly defined term).
administratif, a., administrative, coming from
the administration.
administration, f., administration; a general
term, including all the methods, means, etc.,
necessary to carry on a given business;
de I 'armee, (Fr.a.) generic term for the whole
business of organization, instruction, supply,
discipline, mobilization, recruiting, etc., of the
army. It includes specifically the services of
artillery, engineers, intendance, "powders and
saltpeters,"and the medical department. The
minister of war is the responsible head. The
term is also used to denote the administrative
personnel.
affaiblissemcnt
administration centrale de la guerre, (Fr. a.) the
the ministry of war, including the office (cabinet)
of the minister, the general staff of the
army, the service interieur (q. v.), and the
various directions (q. v.);
conscil d' v. s. , v. conseil;
intcrieure dcs corps de troupe et des etablissements,
(Fr. a.) management and supervision
of all questions relating to troops and to establishments.
administrativement, aiv., in accordance with
administrative regulations.
administrer, v. a. , to administer , using legal means
and resources.
admissibilit$, L, fitness for admission (as, to military
schools);
epreuves d' written , examination, to test fitness
for admission.
admission, f., admission, (e.g., to a school) intro-
;
duction, admission (of steam into cylinder,
etc.); act of admit tingepreuves
d' , oral and practical examination,
to which are admitted only those who have
passed the epreuves d'admissibilite.
adonner, v. n., (of a rope) to stretch.
ados, m., slope, talus, embankment.
adossement, m., (fort.) slope.
adosser, v. a. , r., to prop; to back up, or be backed
up, against something;" (mil.) to have a river,
lake, hill, etc., close in one's rear or back.
ado iiber, v. a., (nav.) to mend, repair.
adoucir, v. a., to soften; to remove a sharp edge,
to smoothen, make smooth; to file smooth; to
cut down, reduce (a slope); to round off (an
edge, a crest); to grind (metal, etc.); (SOT. a.,
art.) to fine-bore; (met.) to anneal.
adoucissage, m., grinding, filing down; reduction;
removal of sharp edges, etc.
adoucissement, m. union , of two bodies by means
of a bevel; (met.) annealing, softening.
adoucisseur, m.,(art.,sm. ) fine-borer, finishingborer;
(in gen.) workman who polishes.
adresse, f., address (place); skill, dexterity.
a droite, m. , (foot troops, from a halt) an individual
right face, (foot troops marching) an individual
by the right flank; (of a squad, section, company)
right; (cat'.) (of a trooper) by the right
flank, (of a platoon, troop) right; (art.) (school
of the driver) by the right flank, (platoon, battery)
right wheel; (mountain art.) (of a mule)
an individual by the right flank, (of a section)
right wheel.
aduction, f. , v. aduition.
aduire, v. n., to exercise, train, your.g carrier
pigeons to fly about their cote without flying
on; to "home."
aduition, f., training of young carrier pigeons to
fly about their cote without escaping; homing.
adversaire, m., adversary, enemy.
afirage, in., ventilation;
puits d' , air-shaft.
aeration, f . , ventilation.
ae"rer, v. a., to air, to ventilate.
aerodue t, m. , air-passage in a wall.
aerouietre, m., (inst.) aerometer.
aiJromoteur, m., (mack.) hot-air engine (hot air
and vapor of water).
afironaute, m. , aeronaut.
aeronautique, a. and f., aeronautic; aeronautics.
aeronef , f . , air-ship.
aeroplane, m., aeroplane, flying machine
aerostat, m., balloon.
aerostatier, m., aeronaut.
aerostation, f., aerostation.
aerostatique, a. and f., aerostatic; aerostatics.
aSrosteur, m., aeronaut.
afirostier, m., aeronaut; (mil.) man serving in balloon
section.
aflaiblir, v. a., to weaken.
affaiblisseinent, m., weakening; loss of strength,
of intensity (as of fire).