Duel

Zell's Condensed Dictionary · 1879 · p. 16

(du'il.) [From L. duellum, a contest between two.] A premeditated rencontre between two persons on some private quarrel, or to adjust a point of honor, -real or a umed,-in which, if death ensue, both the principal and the seconds are guilty of murder in the second degree. [s. 305]