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Subtiliate :: Subtile (a.) Sly; artful; cunning; crafty; subtle; as, a subtile person; a subtile adversary; a subtile scheme..

Enemy :: Enemy (n.) One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a person; an enemy to truth, or to falsehood..

Archenemy :: Archenemy (n.) A principal enemy. Specifically, Satan, the grand adversary of mankind..

Opposer :: Opposer (n.) One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist; an adversary.

Hit :: Hit (n.) A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.

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..

Occurrent :: Occurrent (n.) One who meets; hence, an adversary..

Schesis :: Schesis (n.) A figure of speech whereby the mental habitude of an adversary or opponent is feigned for the purpose of arguing against him.

Checkmate :: Checkmate (v. t.) To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from which there is no escape.

Maim :: Maim (v. t.) To deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person on fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary..

Antagonist :: Antagonist (n.) One who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent..

Pique :: Pique (n.) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one..

Dismount :: Dismount (v. t.) To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse; as, the soldier dismounted his adversary..

Antanagoge :: Antanagoge (n.) A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge..

Check :: Check (n.) A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move..

Sidewinder :: Sidewinder (n.) A heavy swinging blow from the side, which disables an adversary..

Caveating :: Caveating (n.) Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.

Mercy :: Mercy (n.) Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency..

Check :: Check (v. t.) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check..

Foe :: Foe (n.) One who opposes on principle; an opponent; an adversary; an ill-wisher; as, a foe to religion..

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