Word Meanings - ARMS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Anything which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with; an aggressive weapon. Cowell. Blackstone. (more info) arms, orig. fittings, akin to armus shoulder, and E. arm. See Arm, 1. Instruments or weapons of offense or

Additional info about word: ARMS

Anything which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with; an aggressive weapon. Cowell. Blackstone. (more info) arms, orig. fittings, akin to armus shoulder, and E. arm. See Arm, 1. Instruments or weapons of offense or defense. He lays down his arms, but not his wiles. Milton. Three horses and three goodly suits of arms. Tennyson. 2. The deeds or exploits of war; military service or science. "Arms and the man I sing." Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ARMS)

• Combat
• Encounter
• conflict
• contention
• struggle
• contest
• engagement
• arms
• battle

Related words: (words related to ARMS)

• BATTLE
  Fertile. See Battel, a.
• ENCOUNTERER
  One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.
• COMBAT
  To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight. To combat with a blind man I disdain. Milton. After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters. Gibbon.
• CONTESTABLE
  Capable of being contested; debatable.
• STRUGGLER
  One who struggles.
• COMBATTANT
  In the position of fighting; -- said of two lions set face to face, each rampant.
• CONTESTATION
  1. The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon. 2. Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. A solemn
• CONFLICTIVE
  Tending to conflict; conflicting. Sir W. Hamilton.
• COMBATABLE
  Such as can be, or is liable to be, combated; as, combatable foes, evils, or arguments.
• COMBATIVENESS
  A cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition. (more info) 1. The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.
• CONTENTION
  1. A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife. I would my arcontenion. Shak. 2. Strife in words; controversy; altercation quarrel; dispute; as, a bone of contention. Contentions and strivings about the law.
• COMBATANT
  Contending; disposed to contend. B. Jonson.
• STRUGGLE
  to flog, Sw. stryka to stroke, to strike, Dan. stryge, G. straucheln 1. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body. 2. To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to
• BATTLEDOOR
  A child's hornbook. Halliwell. (more info) origin; cf. Sp. batallador a great combatant, he who has fought many battles, Pg. batalhador, Pr. batalhador, warrior, soldier, fr. L. battalia; or cf. Pr. batedor batlet, fr. batre to beat, fr. L. 1.
• CONTESTANT
  One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.
• BATTLED
  Embattled. Tennyson.
• CONTEST
  To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert. To contest an election. To strive to be elected. To dispute the declared result of an election. Syn. -- To
• ENCOUNTER
  To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend
• BATTLEMENT
  fr. batailler, also OF. bastillier, bateillier, to fortify. Cf. One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications. pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature,
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• EMBATTLEMENT
  1. An intended parapet; a battlement. 2. The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.
• INCONTESTED
  Not contested. Addison.
• ENBATTLED
  Embattled.
• INTERCOMBAT
  Combat. Daniel.
• UNCONTESTABLE
  Incontestable.
• PREENGAGEMENT
  Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection. My preëngagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write. Boyle.
• BATTELER; BATTLER
  A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge. Wright.