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te. He succeeded to great captains who had sapped the whole stamina and resistance of the contest. De Quincey.

To hold out in a race or other contest; as, a horse stays well. [Colloq.]

To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds. Fortune, as she 's wont, turned fickle, And for the foe began to stickle. Hudibras. While for paltry punk they roar and stickle. Dryden. The obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong. Hazlitt.

Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts. Doting about questions and strifes of words. 1 Tim. vi. 4. Thus gods contended -- noble strife -Who most should ease the wants of life. Congreve.

To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth. Chaucer. My Spirit shall not always strive with man. Gen. vi. 3. Why dost thou strive against him Job xxxiii. 13. Now…

Contest; contention; strife. An honest might look upon the struggle with indifference. Addison.

To carry on; to enable to continue; to maintain; as, to support a war or a contest; to support an argument or a debate.

under tail coverts. -- Tail end, the latter end; the termination; as, the tail end of a contest. [Colloq.] -- Tail joist. (Arch.) Same as Tailpiece. -- Tail of a comet (Astron.), a luminous train extending from the nucleus or body, often to a great distance, and usually in a direction opposite to the sun. -- Tail o…

ter. team up, to form one or more teams, either for a common endeavor, or to compete in a contest.

Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one; as, a three-handed game of cards.

f votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race.

One appointed to mark and declare the time of participants in races or other contests.

Any contest of skill in which there are many contestents for championship; as, a chess tournament.

To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical contest; as, to train for a boat race.

Hence, intermission of action, pain, or contest; temporary cessation; short quiet. Where he may likeliest find Truce to his restless thoughts. Milton. Flag of truce (Mil.), a white flag carried or exhibited by one of the hostile parties, during the flying of which hostilities are suspended. -- Truce of God, a suspensi…

A test by which the fitness of a player or contestant to remain in a certain class is determined.

A pull with the utmost effort, as in the athletic contest called tug of war; a supreme effort. At the tug he falls, Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls. Dryden.

s umpire; to arbitrate; to settle, as a dispute. Judges appointed to umpire the matter in contest between them, and to decide where the right lies. South.

e double capacity of a poet and a divine. Felton. Under this head may come in the several contests and wars betwixt popes and the secular princes. C. Leslie.

Hence, to defeat in any contest; to get the better of; to put down; to refute. This bold assertion has been fully vanquished in a late reply to the Bishop of Meaux's treatise. Atterbury. For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still. Goldsmith.