sword1 (sord)

[Early mod. E. also swerd; IMG:content-2660.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] A, rapier, 16th century; B, Italian sword, wrought-bronze hilt; C, French hunting-sword, 18th century; D, small sword, 18th century; E, knights' sword, 15th century. is specifically considered as double-edged, or as used for the point only, and therefore having no serviceable edge. IMG:content-2661.png:[blocks in formation] Sword-and-scepter piece.-British Museum. (Size of the original.) £6 Scotch or 10s. English at the time of i ue: so called from the sword and scepter on its reverse. -Sword of state, a sword used on state occasions, being borne before a sovereign by a person of high rank: it is expre ive of the military power, the right and duty of doing justice, etc.; also, a sword considered as the embodiment of national or corporate jurisdiction, sometimes a royal gift to a community or corporation. - Sword wavy, in her., a bearing representing a sword with a waved blade; a flamberge. The Order of the Brothers of the Sword (G. Schwert-Brüder, a military order resembling the Templars, founded about 1200, and very powerful in Livonia and adjacent regions. Its last Master ceded the territory, of the order Poland about 1561.-To be at points, to be in a hostile attitude; be avowed enemies. To cro swords. See cro l. - To measure swords. See measure. - To put to the sword, to kill with the sword; slay. To sheathe the sword. See sheathe.Trutch swordt, apparently, a sort of sword of ceremony displayed at funerals. Above my hearse, last years of the thirteenth century, when the broad belt pa ed diagonally from the waist downward over the left hip, and suspended the scabbard of the sword in front of the left thigh, with a complicated arrangement of narrow straps by which the scabbard was held. In the belt of this form a very narrow strap formed the girdle proper, and was buckled around the waist, the broad sword-belt being attached to it behind the right hip. See also hanger, baldric, hip - girdle. swordbill (sörd'bil), n. A humming-bird of the genus Docimastes, as D. ensiferus, having the bill about as long as the rest of the bird. See cut under Docimastes. sword-blade (sõrdʼblād), n. The blade or cutting part of a sword. sword-breaker (sõrd'brākėr), n. 1. An implement formerly carried in the left hand, to break the blade of the adversary's sword, usually a hook attached to the front of a small buckler or to the guard of a stout dagger.-2. A dagger fitted with such a device, or having the blade shaped with a notch or rece , or even several notches, in which the adversary's sword-blade could be seized; also, a buckler similarly provided. sword-brothert, n. [ME. sweord-brother (= MHG. swertbruoder, G. schwertbruder ); A walking-stick See broadsword, claymore, rapier, and cuts under saber , sword1 (sord), v. t. [ second, simitar, and tourney -sword. Than he leide honde to his swerde , that was oon of the beste of the worlde, ffor, as the booke seith, it was som tymn Hercules. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 339. His bootele e swerd he girded him about, And ran amid his foes redy to dye. Surrey, Eneid, ii. or slash with a sword. [Rare.] Nor heard the King for their own cries, but sprang Thro' open doors, and swording right and left Men, women, on their sodden faces, hurl'd The tables over and the wines. Tennyson, Last Tournament.