Definition of sword

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Sword (n.) An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties..

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Toledo :: Toledo (n.) A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, which city was famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons..
Swore :: Swordtail (n.) Any hemipterous insect of the genus Uroxiphus, found upon forest trees..
Swordsmanship :: Swordsman (n.) One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
Shabble :: Shabble (n.) A kind of crooked sword or hanger.
Creese :: Creese (n.) A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade..
Forte :: Forte (n.) The stronger part of the blade of a sword; the part of half nearest the hilt; -- opposed to foible.
Play :: Play (n.) Action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair play; sword play; a play of wit..
Manual :: Manual (a.) A prescribed exercise in the systematic handing of a weapon; as, the manual of arms; the manual of the sword; the manual of the piece (cannon, mortar, etc.)..
Tuck :: Tuck (n.) A long, narrow sword; a rapier..
Matachin :: Matachin (n.) An old dance with swords and bucklers; a sword dance.
Blade :: Blade (n.) The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword..
Foible :: Foible (n.) The half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte.
Machete :: Machete (n.) A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes..
Swordtail :: Swordtail (n.) The limulus.
Jewel :: "Jewel (v. t.) To dress, adorn, deck, or supply with jewels, as a dress, a sword hilt, or a watch; to bespangle, as with jewels..
Singlestick :: Singlestick (n.) The game played with singlesticks, in which he who first brings blood from his adversary's head is pronounced victor; backsword; cudgeling..
Web :: Web (n.) The blade of a sword.
Sworder :: Sworded (a.) Girded with a sword.
Quick :: Quick (n.) The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; -- used figuratively..
Lunge :: Lunge (n.) A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword..
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