Word Meanings - WEAPON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished. Concealed weapons. See under Concealed. -- Weapon salve, a salve which was supposed to cure a wound by being applied to the weapon that made it. Boyle. (more info) wapen, G. waffe,

Additional info about word: WEAPON

A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished. Concealed weapons. See under Concealed. -- Weapon salve, a salve which was supposed to cure a wound by being applied to the weapon that made it. Boyle. (more info) wapen, G. waffe, OHG. waffan, wafan, Icel. vapn, Dan. vaaben, Sw. 1. An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. 2 Cor. x. 4. They, astonished, all resistance lost, All courage; down their idle weapons dropped. Milton. 2. Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon. "Woman's weapons, water drops." Shak.

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  To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
• STILL
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• STEAD
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• BELIAL
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