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Arm :: Arm (v. i.) To provide one's self with arms, weapons, or means of attack or resistance; to take arms..

Betongue :: Betongue (v. t.) To attack with the tongue; to abuse; to insult.

Guard :: Guard (v. t.) One who, or that which, guards from injury, danger, exposure, or attack; defense; protection..

Flank :: Flank (n.) The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to attack an enemy in flank is to attack him on the side..

Take :: Take (v. t.) To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take am army, a city, or a ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like..

Oppugn :: Oppugn (v. t.) To fight against; to attack; to be in conflict with; to oppose; to resist.

Invasion :: Invasion (n.) The incoming or first attack of anything hurtful or pernicious; as, the invasion of a disease..

Machicolation :: Machicolation (n.) An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle..

Disarm :: Disarm (v. t.) To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.

Ambush :: Ambush (v. t.) A concealed station, where troops or enemies lie in wait to attack by surprise..

Rencounter :: Rencounter (v. t.) To attack hand to hand.

Offensive :: Offensive (a.) Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence, used in attacking; -- opposed to defensive; as, an offensive war; offensive weapons..

Aggressive :: Aggressive (a.) Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation..

Ammunition :: Ammunition (n.) Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense..

Sciatica :: Sciatica (n.) Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, an affection characterized by paroxysmal attacks of pain in the buttock, back of the thigh, or in the leg or foot, following the course of the branches of the sciatic nerve. The name is also popularly applied to various painful affections of the hip and the parts adjoining it. See Ischiadic passion, under Ischiadic..

Aggress :: Aggress (v. t.) To set upon; to attack.

Curmurring :: Curmurring (n.) Murmuring; grumbling; -- sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes.

Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon..

Attempt :: Attempt (v. t.) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force; as, to attempt the enemy's camp..

Illapse :: Illapse (v. i.) A gliding in; an immisson or entrance of one thing into another; also, a sudden descent or attack..

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