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Noncombatant :: Noncombatant (n.) Any person connected with an army, or within the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, chaplains, and others; also, any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army; also, any one holding a similar position with respect to the navy..

List :: List (n.) A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a race or combat..

Duel :: Duel (n.) A combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons, by agreement. It usually arises from an injury done or an affront given by one to the other..

Skirmish :: Skirmish (v. i.) A slight fight in war; a light or desultory combat between detachments from armies, or between detached and small bodies of troops..

Agonistics :: Agonistics (n.) The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games..

Spat :: Spat (n.) Hence, a petty combat, esp. a verbal one; a little quarrel, dispute, or dissension..

Combatant :: Combatant (a.) Contending; disposed to contend.

Battailant :: Battailant (n.) A combatant.

Debate :: Debate (v. i.) To engage in strife or combat; to fight.

Stickle :: Stickle (v. t.) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants..

Fight :: Fight (v. i.) A screen for the combatants in ships.

Force :: Force (n.) Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation..

Duel :: Duel (v. i. & t.) To fight in single combat.

Combat :: Combat (v. i.) To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight..

List :: List (v. t.) To inclose for combat; as, to list a field..

Allopathy :: Allopathy (n.) That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated; -- a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy..

Monomachist :: Monomachist (n.) One who fights in single combat; a duelist.

Melee :: Melee (n.) A fight in which the combatants are mingled in one confused mass; a hand to hand conflict; an affray.

Gladiatorian :: Gladiatorian (a.) Of or pertaining to gladiators, or to contests or combatants in general..

Cope :: Cope (v. i.) To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; -- usually followed by with..

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