Sword

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• Sword

  ·noun The military power of a country. II. Sword ·noun Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war;...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Sword

  Of the Hebrew was pointed, sometimes two-edged, was worn in a sheath, and suspended from the girdle ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Half-sword

  ·noun Half the length of a sword; close fight. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Sword-shaped

  ·adj Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• sword racket

  To enlist in different regiments, and on receiving the bounty to desert immediately. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• sword-grass

  n. In New Zealand, Arundoconspicua; in Australia, Cladium psittacorum,Labill. It is not the same as...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• sword-sedge

  a sedge on Australian coasts, Lepidosperma gladiatum, Labill., N.O. Cyperaceae,useful for binding se...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• sword-fish

  A large fish of the family Scombridæ, remarkable for the prolongation of the nose into a straight, p...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sword-mat

  A mat made with shoulders to protect the laniards of the lower rigging, boats' gripes, &c., and work...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Hanging Sword Alley

  East out of Whitefriars Street, at No. 22, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.O. Directory). First menti...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Hanging Sword Court

  South out of Fleet Street and west to Hanging Sword Alley, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 167...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Sword and Buckler Court

  North out of Ludgate Hill, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799). Afterwards " Ho...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• leaping over the sword

  An ancient ceremonial said to constitute a military marriage. A sword being laid down on the ground,...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose