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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Oracle :: Oracle (n.) The answer of a god, or some person reputed to be a god, to an inquiry respecting some affair or future event, as the success of an enterprise or battle..
Array :: Array (n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal..
Fight :: Fight (v. t.) To contend with in battle; to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours..
Armor :: Armor (n.) Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle.
Date :: Date (n.) The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle..
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..
Bloody :: Bloody (a.) Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle..
Loss :: Loss (v. t.) Failure to gain or win; as, loss of a race or battle..
Poleaxe :: Poleaxe (n.) Anciently, a kind of battle-ax with a long handle; later, an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel..
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..
Tactics :: Tactics (n.) The science and art of disposing military and naval forces in order for battle, and performing military and naval evolutions. It is divided into grand tactics, or the tactics of battles, and elementary tactics, or the tactics of instruction..
Merlon :: Merlon (n.) One of the solid parts of a battlemented parapet; a battlement. See Illust. of Battlement.
Battled :: Battled (p. p.) Embattled.
Banner :: Banner (n.) A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle..
Castellated :: Castellated (a.) Furnished with turrets and battlements, like a castle; built in the style of a castle..
Archery :: Archery (n.) The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows..
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..
Spatulate :: Spatulate (a.) Shaped like spatula, or like a battledoor, being roundish, with a long, narrow, linear base..
Affair :: Affair (n.) An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.
Acquit :: Acquit (v. t.) To bear or conduct one's self; to perform one's part; as, the soldier acquitted himself well in battle; the orator acquitted himself very poorly..
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