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To engage in combat for; to strive for. Volunteers . . . thronged to serve under his banner, and the cause of religion was debated with the same ardor in Spain as on the plains of Palestine. Prescott.

An involuntary discharge of watery humors from the eyes; wateriness of the eyes. [Obs.] Bailey.

A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.

The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility. Deviation of a falling body (Physics), that deviation from a strictly vertical line of descent which occurs in a body falling freel…

Self- inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.

The termination of an action in practice by the voluntary act of the plaintiff; an entry on the record that the plaintiff discontinues his action.

To deprive of an edge; to blunt; to dull. Served a little to disedge The sharpness of that pain about her heart. Tennyson.

To deprive of exercise; to leave untrained. [Obs.] By disexercising and blunting our abilities. Milton.

A blunt javelin used in military games in Moslem countries.

The act or contract by which a person voluntarily transfers the title to a thing of which be is the owner, from himself to another, without any consideration, as a free gift. Bouvier. Donation party, a party assembled at the house of some one, as of a clergyman, each one bringing some present. [U.S.] Bartlett.…

Plain; direct; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way. A man of plain, downright character. Sir W. Scott.

Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt. "Thy scythe is dull." Herbert.

The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness. [Written also dulness.] And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. Pope.

Beaten; hence, blunted. [Obs.] Fencer's swords . . . having the edge dunted. Fuller.

A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected. Mayne.

Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.

To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.

Compelled; forced; not voluntary. "Enforced wrong." "Enforced smiles." Shak. -- En*for"ced*ly, adv. Shak.

The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor.

An involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine.