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Definition of war

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War (n.) A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities..

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Antrorse :: Antrorse (a.) Forward or upward in direction.

Force :: Force (n.) Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation..

Outward :: Outward (a.) Tending to the exterior or outside.

Thwart :: Thwart (v. t.) To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat..

Sail :: Sail (n.) To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by the action of steam or other power..

Leader :: Leader (n.) A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses.

Estre :: Estre (n.) The inward part of a building; the interior.

Procacity :: Procacity (n.) Forwardness; pertness; petulance.

Intimate :: Intimate (a.) Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty.

Midshipman :: Midshipman (n.) Formerly, a kind of naval cadet, in a ship of war, whose business was to carry orders, messages, reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services as required..

Intercept :: Intercept (v. t.) To interrupt communication with, or progress toward; to cut off, as the destination; to blockade..

Warble :: Warble (v. i.) To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel.

Armor-plated :: Armor-plated (a.) Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad..

Payment :: Payment (n.) That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return..

Unaware :: Unaware (adv.) Unawares.

Reversion :: Reversion (n.) A return towards some ancestral type or character; atavism.

Run :: Run (n.) The aftermost part of a vessel's hull where it narrows toward the stern, under the quarter..

Babillard :: Babillard (n.) The lesser whitethroat of Europe; -- called also babbling warbler.

Nicker :: Nicker (v. t.) The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.

Wage :: Wage (v. t.) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out..