battle word

The "word," signal, or watchword given forth by a leader to his followers when engaging in battle. "Alla and Mahomet their battle -word." Scott: Vision of Don Roderick, 20. băt'-tle (1) (tle as tel), * băt'-til, v.t. & i. [BATTEL (1).] băt-tle (2) (tle as tel), * batail, * batailen, v . i. & t. [From battle (2), s. (q. v.). In Fr. batailler Prov. & Port. batalhar ; Sp. batallar to fight, to fence; Ital. battagliare =to fight, to skirmish.] A. Intransitive: I. Lit. Of a conflict between physical forces: 1. To fight a battle; to take part in a battle. "Oh! more or le than man-in high or low, Battling with nations, flying from the field." Byron: Childe Harold, iii. 38. 2. To struggle to contend in a conflict of any kind, even though unworthy the name of a battle. "Her ragged and starving soldiers often mingled with the crowd of beggars at at the doors of convents, and battled there for a me of pottage and a crust of bread."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xx. II. Fig . Of a conflict between moral forces: To be in conflict or antagonism with anything; to struggle against anything. "I own he hates an action base, His virtues battling with his is place." Swift. B. Transitive: To contest, to dispute by force of arms, or in any other hostile way. (Followed by it , which gives the ordinary intransitive verb a transitive character.) "I battle it against Him, as I battled In highest heaven."- Byron : Cain, il 2 băt'-tled (tled as teld), bắt'-teled, a. [From O. Fr. bataillier = to furnish with battlements.] 1. Ord. Lang.: Po e ed of battlements. [EMBATTLED.] "So thou, fair city! disarrayed Of battled wall and rampart's aid." Scott : Marmion , Introd. to canto v. 2. Her.: Having the chief, chevron, fe e, or anything similar borne on one side in the form of the battlements of a castle or fort. băt'-tle-döor, bat-tle-döre, * băt'-tleděr, * bắt-ỹl-döre, * batyldoure (tle as tel), s. [Etymology doubtful, probably from Sp. batidor = one who or that which beats ; batir = to beat.] IMG:content-1126.png:[blocks in formation] 465 II. Fig .: A high and dangerous social o political elevation. "That stands upon the battlements of state; I'd rather be secure than great."-Norris B. In an attributive sense in such a compound as the following: