warfare (warfar)

i. [ He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. Milton , Areopagitica. warfarer (war'far-er), n. One engaged in war, or in a contest or struggle of any sort. warfaring (wâr'far-ing), n . ing on war. [Rare.] The act of carry The Burg of the Niblung people and the heart of their warfaring . William Morris, Sigurd, iii. war-flail (war'flāl), n . A weapon used in the middle ages, resembling the agricultural flail in its general character. Sometimes it was a pole to the end of which a strong bag of leather was secured by a thong, or by rings of metal. The bag seems to have been stuffed with sand. Compare sand - bag , sand - club , and see Shakspere's 2 Hen. VI., iv. 3. See also cut under morning-star.