Definition of battle

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Battle (a.) Fertile. See Battel, a..

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Brunt :: Brunt (v. t.) The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle..
Embattle :: Embattle (v. t.) To furnish with battlements.
Rush :: Rush (v. i.) To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice..
Battle :: Battle (n.) To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories..
Valhalla :: Valhalla (n.) The palace of immortality, inhabited by the souls of heroes slain in battle..
Batailled :: Batailled (a.) Embattled.
Battledoor :: Battledoor (n.) An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock..
Embattled :: Embattled (a.) Having the edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like..
Stour :: Stour (n.) A battle or tumult; encounter; combat; disturbance; passion.
Decimate :: Decimate (v. t.) To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease..
Battlemented :: Battlemented (a.) Having battlements.
Merlon :: Merlon (n.) One of the solid parts of a battlemented parapet; a battlement. See Illust. of Battlement.
Array :: Array (n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array..
Battlement :: Battlement (n.) pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches..
Victory :: Victory (n.) The defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in any contest; a gaining of the superiority in any struggle or competition; conquest; triumph; -- the opposite of defeat..
Anxious :: Anxious (a.) Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, esp. respecting something future or unknown; being in painful suspense; -- applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle..
Batrachomyomachy :: Batrachomyomachy (n.) The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship..
Armor :: Armor (n.) Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle.
Reserve :: Reserve (n.) A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency..
Crotchet :: Crotchet (n.) The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle..
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