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Adversary :: Adversary (a.) Having an opposing party; not unopposed; as, an adversary suit..

Paraleipsis :: Paraleipsis (n.) A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice..

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

Force :: Force (n.) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.

Adversary :: Adversary (a.) Opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic.

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

Adversary :: Adversary (n.) One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe.

Opponent :: Opponent (n.) One who opposes; an adversary; an antagonist; a foe.

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..

Pass :: Pass (v. i.) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.

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.

Revie :: Revie (v. i.) To exceed an adversary's wager in card playing.

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..

Misericordia :: Misericordia (n.) A thin-bladed dagger; so called, in the Middle Ages, because used to give the death wound or mercy stroke to a fallen adversary..

Maim :: Maim (v.) The privation of the use of a limb or member of the body, by which one is rendered less able to defend himself or to annoy his adversary..

Satan :: Satan (n.) The grand adversary of man; the Devil, or Prince of darkness; the chief of the fallen angels; the archfiend..

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

Quarte :: Quarte (n.) A position in thrusting or parrying, with the inside of the hand turned upward and the point of the weapon toward the adversary's right breast..

Hip :: Hip (v. t.) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).

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

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