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One who opposes on principle; an opponent; an adversary; an ill- wisher; as, a foe to religion. A foe to received doctrines. I. Watts

To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.

as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose. Shall the adversary thus obtain His end and frustrate thine Milton.

To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).

A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.

To crowd (things) together to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system. Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together, . . . makes a medley and confusion. Locke.

A method of reasoning in which the orator shows that arguments advanced by his adversary in opposition to him are really favorable to his cause.

es; merry; sportive; humorous. To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary. Shaftesbury. All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded. I. Watts.

A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch. Lady --- has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch. Walpole. To leave one in the lurch. (a) In the game of cribbage, to leave one's adversary so far behind that the game is won before he has scored thirty-one. (b) To leave one behin…

, so as to render a person on fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary. By the ancient law of England he that maimed any man whereby he lost any part of his body, was sentenced to lose the like part. Blackstone.

in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right; -- used to parry thrusts of the adversary's rapier.

vocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency. Examples of justice must be made for terror to some; examples of mercy for comfort to others. Bacon.

d, in the Middle Ages, because used to give the death wound or "mercy" stroke to a fallen adversary.

A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in titling.

One who meets; hence, an adversary. [Obs.] Holland.

One who opposes; an adversary; an antagonist; a foe. Macaulay.

One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist; an adversary.

n. Overborne with weight the Cyprians fell. Dryden. They are not so ready to overbear the adversary who goes out of his own country to meet them. Jowett (Thucyd. )

what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, "I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice." [Written also paralepsis, paralepsy, paralipsis.]

A concession to an adversary in order to strengthen one's own argument.