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To drive out from a place of hiding or defense; as, to dislodge a deer, or an enemy. The Volscians are dislodg'd. Shak.

the real fact, motives, He that hateth dissembleth with his lips. Prov. xxvi. 24. He [an enemy] dissembles when he assumes an air of friendship. C. J. Smith.

The act of drawing the attention and force of an enemy from the point where the principal attack is to be made; the attack, alarm, or feint which diverts.

mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel.

is but a vain and doubtful good. Shak. Is it a great cruelty to expel from our abode the enemy of our peace, or even the doubtful friend [i. e., one as to whose sincerity there may be doubts] Bancroft.

A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy. [Obs.] By drawing sudden draughts upon the enemy when he looketh not for you. Spenser.

Admiralty (Eng. Law), rights or perquisites of the Admiralty, arising from seizure of an enemy's ships in port on the breaking out of war, or those coming into port in ignorance of hostilities existing, or from such ships as are taken by noncommissioned captors; also, the proceeds of wrecks, and derelict property at s…

One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's miners.

va voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor. Corruption in elections is the great enemy of freedom. J. Adams.

contest with; to encounter; to bring to conflict. A favorable opportunity of engaging the enemy. Ludlow.

To give heart to; to fill with courage; to embolden. The enemy exults and is enheartened. I. Taylor.

The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition. No ground of enmity between us known. Milton.

To meet or encounter, as an enemy. [Obs.] Shak.

toward; to deal with; to use. [Obs.] Fairly let her be entreated. Shak. I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well. Jer. xv. 11.

s, filled with earth, or of earth heaped up, to afford cover from the flanking fire of an enemy.

observed by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention. They escaped the search of the enemy. Ludlow.

sly in a fixed condition; -- used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the enemy established themselves in the citadel.

A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the approach of an enemy.

Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief [is] the enemy to the living. Shak.

o meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field of battale. I'll face This tempest, and deserve the name of king. Dryden.