Word Meanings - FOUGHTEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
p. p. of Fight.
Related words: (words related to FOUGHTEN)
- FIGHTINGLY
Pugnaciously. - FIGHT
fechten, Sw. fäkta, Dan. fegte, and perh. to E. fist; cf. L. pugnare 1. To strive or contened for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in - FIGHTWITE
A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace. - FIGHTING
1. Qualified for war; fit for battle. An host of fighting men. 2 Chron. xxvi. 11. 2. Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field. Pope. A fighting chance, one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. -- Fighting crab , - FIGHTER
One who fights; a combatant; a warrior. Shak. - FOOTFIGHT
A conflict by persons on foot; -- distinguished from a fight on horseback. Sir P. Sidney. - CAMPFIGHT
A duel; the decision of a case by a duel. - BUSHFIGHTING
Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets. - BUSHFIGHTER
One accustomed to bushfighting. Parkman. - CLOSE-FIGHTS
Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters. - COCKFIGHTING
The act or practice of pitting gamecocks to fight. - HANDYFIGHT
A fight with the hands; boxing. "Pollux loves handyfights." B. Jonson. - SEA FIGHT
An engagement between ships at sea; a naval battle. - BULLFIGHT; BULLFIGHTING
A barbarous sport, of great antiquity, in which men torment, and fight with, a bull or bulls in an arena, for public amusement, -- still popular in Spain. -- Bull"fight`er (, n. - COCKFIGHT
A match or contest of gamecocks.