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t too heavy for the holder; to manage; to handle; hence, to use or employ; as, to wield a sword; to wield the scepter. Base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield! Shak. Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed. Milton. Nothing but the influence of a civilized power could induce a savage to wield a spade…

y should calamity be full of words Shak. Be thy words severe; Sharp as he merits, but the sword forbear. Dryden.

be a murderer. Tyndale (Acts xxviii. 3, 4). 'T is slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile. Shak. When Cerberus perceived us, the great worm, His mouth he opened and displayed his tusks. Longfellow.

To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence. Wrench his sword from him. Shak. Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched With a woeful agony. Coleridge.

ing or twisting. "The secret wrested from me." Milton. Our country's cause, That drew our swords, now secret wrests them from our hand. Addison. They instantly wrested the government out of the hands of Hastings. Macaulay.

A genus of fishes comprising the common swordfish.

A genus of plants of the order Hæmodraceæ, having two-ranked, sword-shaped leaves.

Like a sword; ensiform.

Having sword-shaped leaves.

A girdle; a belt. [Poetic & R.] By his side, As in a glistering zodiac, hung the sword. Milton.