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To take air, etc. See under Aback, Advantage, etc. -- To take aim, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim. -- To take along, to carry, lead, or convey. -- To take arms, to commence war or hostilities. -- To take away, to carry off; to remove; to cause deprivation of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away the vo…

A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.

To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.

To point or thrust a weapon at. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

in Spain, which city was famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons.

A weapon. [Obs.] Him that is aghast of every tool. Chaucer.

To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart.

A three-pronged spear or goad, used for urging horses; also, the weapon used by one class of gladiators.

orial, as on a medal; esp. (Arch.), an ornament representing a group of arms and military weapons, offensive and defensive.

Not armed or armored; having no arms or weapons.

ure certain; sure; unfailing; as, the unerring wisdom of God. Hissing in air the unerring weapon flew. Dryden.

Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up your weapons.

To act on the defensive with a weapon. She redoubling her blows drove the stranger to no other shift than to ward and go back. Sir P. Sidney.

Contest; struggle. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. 2 Cor. x. 4.

the Welsh mountains, and largely manufactured by hand. -- Welsh glaive, or Welsh hook, a weapon of war used in former times by the Welsh, commonly regarded as a kind of poleax. Fairholt. Craig. -- Welsh mortgage (O. Eng. Law), a species of mortgage, being a conveyance of an estate, redeemable at any time on payment o…

Weapon. [Obs.]

A kind of hanger or sword used as a knife at meals and as a weapon. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] The chief acknowledged that he had corrected her with his whinger. Sir W. Scott.

ift. What are these So withered and so wild in their attire Shak. With mountains, as with weapons, armed; which makes Wild work in heaven. Milton. The wild winds howl. Addison. Search then the ruling passion, there, alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known. Pope.

Accustomed; customary; usual. Again his wonted weapon proved. Spenser. Like an old piece of furniture left alone in its wonted corner. Sir W. Scott. She was wonted to the place, and would not remove. L'Estrange.

To make worse; to put disadvantage; to discomfit; to worst. See Worst, v. Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes. Milton.