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A man daring beyond discretion; a bully. Hot braves like thee may fight. Dryden.

To fight with the fists; to box. Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English custom. Thackeray.

To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend. The bishop was as able and ready to buckle with the Lord Protector as he was with him. Latimer. In single combat thou shalt buckle with me. Shak. To buckle to, to bend to; to engage with zeal. To make our sturdy humor buckle thereto.…

See Bullfight. [Obs.]

e attention; to call off workmen from their employment. -- To call out. (a) To summon to fight; to challenge. (b) To summon into service; as, to call out the militia. -- To call over, to recite separate particulars in order, as a roll of names. -- To call to account, to demand explanation of. -- To call to mind, to…

To cut or hack, as in fighting. [Obs.] I'll so carbonado your shanks. Shak.

The fight of a hawk.

A fight in which centaurs take part, -- a common theme for relief sculpture, as in the Parthenon metopes.

to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons. A challenge to controversy. Goldsmith.

To fight and scratch. C. Smart.

To grapple; to engange in hand-to-hand fight. They boldly closed in a hand-to-hand contest. Prescott. To close on or upon, to come to a mutual agreement; to agree on or join in. "Would induce France and Holland to close upon some measures between them to our disadvantage." Sir W. Temple. -- To close with. (a) To acced…

Same as Coat of arms. See below. Hark, countrymen! either renew the fight, Or tear the lions out of England's coat. Shak.

One given to cockfighting. [Obs.] Steele.

Cockfighting. Ben Jonson.

A cockfight.

A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights. Henry the Eight had built . . . a cockpit. Macaulay.

d blood, without excitement or passion; deliberately. He was slain in cold blood after thefight was over. Sir W. Scott. To give one the cold shoulder, to treat one with neglect.

To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight. To combat with a blind man I disdain. Milton. After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters. Gibbon.

In the position of fighting; -- said of two lions set face to face, each rampant.

nses. -- To come to pass, to happen; to fall out. -- To come to the scratch. (a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in beginning a contest; hence: (b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely. [Colloq.] -- To come to time. (a) (Prize Fighting) To come…