Artillery

(ar-til'le-re.) [Fr. artillerie.] (Mil.) A term which originally signified all weapons of defence, and machines employed in warfare, . Since the introduction of gunpowder, however, it has been chiefly confined to large ordnance, viz., cannon, howitzers, mortars, rockets, ., with their carriages, ammunition, and apparatus of all kinds, and the "personnel" appointed for their management. The science ofA. teaches whatever relates to the construction of all engines of war, the arrangement, movement, and management of cannon and all sorts of ordnance, used either in the field or the camp, or at sieges, . The same name is also given to the troops by whom these arms are served, the men being, in fact, subsidiary to the instruments. Park ofA., a place set apart in a camp for the A. and large firearms.- Train of A., a set or number of pieces of ordnance-mounted on carriages.-Flying A., a sort of A., so called from the celerity with which it can be moved. Seats are contrived for the men who work it, and a sufficient force of horses is applied to enable them to proceed at a gallop. [s. 50]