Definition of battle

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Battle (v. t.) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat..

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Embattle :: Embattle (v. t.) To furnish with battlements.
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..
Shuttlecock :: Shuttlecock (n.) A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself..
Fighting :: Fighting (a.) Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field..
Battled :: Battled (imp. & p. p.) of Battl.
Sanguinary :: Sanguinary (a.) Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; as, a sanguinary war, contest, or battle..
Loss :: Loss (v. t.) Failure to gain or win; as, loss of a race or battle..
Embattled :: Embattled (a.) Having indentations like a battlement.
Embattlement :: Embattlement (n.) An intended parapet; a battlement.
Herald :: Herald (n.) An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character..
Tournament :: Tournament (n.) A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle..
Van :: Van (n.) The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle..
Field :: Field (n.) A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself..
Battle :: Battle (v. t.) A division of an army; a battalion.
Danewort :: Danewort (n.) A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood. [Said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the Danes.].
Smite :: Smite (v. t.) To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
Affair :: Affair (n.) An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.
Theomachy :: Theomachy (n.) A battle or strife among the gods.
Battlement :: Battlement (n.) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.
Carnage :: Carnage (n.) Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed; slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc..
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