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That part of the hilt, in certain kinds of swords, which overlaps the scabbard.

Lily iron, a kind of harpoon with a detachable head of peculiar shape, used in capturing swordfish. -- Lily of the valley (Bot.), a low perennial herb (Convallaria majalis), having a raceme of nodding, fragrant, white flowers. -- Lily pad, the large floating leaf of the water lily. [U. S.] Lowell. -- Tiger lily (Bo…

Having the form of a sword, but very long and narrow.

To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.

A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.

To steal; to rob. [Obs.] And in the brunt of seventeen battles since He lurched all swords of the garland. Shak.

A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes. J. Stevens.

pure; hitherto unused. "Maiden flowers.' Shak. Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword. Shak.

exercise in the systematic handing of a weapon; as, the manual of arms; the manual of the sword; the manual of the piece (cannon, mortar, etc.).

stance; ponderous; bulky and heavy; weight; heavy; as, a massy shield; a massy rock. Your swords are now too massy for your strengths, And will not be uplifted. Shak. Yawning rocks in massy fragments fly. Pope.

An old dance with swords and bucklers; a sword dance.

at portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun. Addison. To measure swords with one, to try another's skill in the use of the sword; hence, figuratively, to match one's abilities against an antagonist's.

A sword. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Fatally vulnerable; vital. Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work. Milton.

In sword and saber exercises, a circular swing of the weawon.

loth or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc.

or use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.

,v.t. To make naked. [Obs.] Chaucer. Come, be ready, nake your swords. Old Play.

Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword.

New Zealand flax. (a) (Bot.) A tall, liliaceous herb (Phormium tenax), having very long, sword-shaped, distichous leaves which furnish a fine, strong fiber very valuable for cordage and the like. (b) The fiber itself. -- New Zealand tea (Bot.), a myrtaceous shrub (Leptospermum scoparium) of New Zealand and Australia,…