Word Meanings - WARFARER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One engaged in warfare; a military man; a soldier; a warrior.

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• SOLDIERLY
  Like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable; soldierlike. "Soldierly discipline." Sir P. Sidney.
• SOLDIERLIKE
  Like a soldier; soldierly.
• WARRIORESS
  A female warrior. Spenser.
• SOLDIERING
  1. The act of serving as a soldier; the state of being a soldier; the occupation of a soldier. 2. The act of feigning to work. See the Note under Soldier, v. i., 2.
• ENGAGING
  Tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address. -- En*ga"ging*ly, adv. -- En*ga"ging*ness, n. Engaging and disengaging gear or machinery, that in which, or by means of which, one part is alternately brought
• ENGAGEDNESS
  The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.
• WARFARER
  One engaged in warfare; a military man; a soldier; a warrior.
• ENGAGE
  To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part. (more info) Etym: 1. To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as
• ENGAGER
  One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety. Several sufficient citizens were engagers. Wood.
• SOLDIERSHIP
  Military qualities or state; martial skill; behavior becoming a soldier. Shak.
• SOLDIER
  The red or cuckoo gurnard (more info) soldoier, soldeier, sodoier, soudoier, soudier, fr. L. solidus a piece of money , fr. solidus 1. One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one
• ENGAGEDLY
  With attachment; with interest; earnestly.
• MILITARY
  1. Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown. Nor do I, as an enemy to peace,
• ENGAGED
  1. Occupied; employed; busy. 2. Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed. 3. Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest. 4. Involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as,
• WARRIOR
  A man engaged or experienced in war, or in the military life; a soldier; a champion. Warriors old with ordered spear and shield. Milton. Warrior ant , a reddish ant native of Europe and America. It is one of the species which move in armies to
• WARFARE
  1. Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war. The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. I Sam. xxviii. 1. This day from battle rest; Faithful hath been your warfare.
• ENGAGEMENT
  An action; a fight; a battle. In hot engagement with the Moors. Dryden. (more info) 1. The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest. 2. The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take
• SOLDIERY
  1. A body of soldiers; soldiers, collectivelly; the military. A camp of faithful soldiery. Milton. 2. Military service. Sir P. Sidney.
• SOLDIERESS
  A female soldier.
• SOLDIERWOOD
  A showy leguminous plant of the West Indies. The flowers have long tassels of purple stamens.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• GREENGAGE
  A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
• DISENGAGING
  Loosing; setting free; detaching. Disengaging machinery. See under Engaging.
• 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.
• UNSOLDIERED
  Not equipped like a soldier; unsoldierlike. J. Fletcher.
• DRENGAGE
  The tenure by which a drench held land. Burrill.
• DISENGAGEMENT
  1. The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged. It is easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses. Transl. of Lavoisier. A disengagement from earthly trammels. Sir W. Jones. 2. Freedom
• WATER SOLDIER
  An aquatic European plant with bayonet- shaped leaves.
• DISENGAGED
  Not engaged; free from engagement; at leisure; free from occupation or care; vacant. -- Dis`en*ga"ged*ness, n.