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Word Meanings - FOUGHTEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

p. p. of Fight.

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  • 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.

 

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