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ts or speaks in behalf of a person or a cause; a defender; an advocate; a hero. A stouter champion never handled sword. Shak. Champions of law and liberty. Fisher Ames.

A female champion. Fairfax.

State of being champion; leadership; supremancy.

ent; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition. Ireland had no adequate champion. De Quincey.

requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion.

Chief or commander; in Spanish literature, a title of Ruy Diaz, Count of Bivar, a champion of Christianity and of the old Spanish royalty, in the 11th century.

Comparison. [Archaic] His mighty champion, strong beyond compare. Milton. Their small galleys may not hold compare With our tall ships. Waller.

ictory; to overcome; to prevail. He went forth conquering and to conquer. Rev. vi. 2. The champions resolved to conquer or to die. Waller.

One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator. Provinces . . . left without their ancient and puissant defenders. Motley.

guard; a protection. War would arise in defense of the right. Tennyson. God, the widow's champion and defense. Shak.

To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen. To edge her champion's sword. Dryden.

at once; speedily. [Archaic] And, if he fall from his capel [horse] eftsone. Chaucer. The champion stout eftsoons dismounted. Spenser.

y up. Blackw. Mag. It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack. Saintsbury.

Among Mohammedans, a warrior champion or veteran, esp. in the destruction of infidels.

A champion; a partisan; a lover. "Give this ring to my true knight." Shak "In all your quarrels will I be your knight." Tennyson. Knights, by their oaths, should right poor ladies' harms. Shak.

A knight-errant; a distinguished champion; as, the paladins of Charlemagne. Sir W. Scott.

A saying; a proverb; a maxim. His champions are the prophets and apostles, His weapons holy saws of sacred writ. Shak.

d size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion. Dryden.

One who sprints; one who runs in sprint races; as, a champion sprinter.

scular; hence, firm; resolute; dauntless. With hearts stern and stout. Chaucer. A stouter champion never handled sword. Shak. He lost the character of a bold, stout, magnanimous man. Clarendon. The lords all stand To clear their cause, most resolutely stout. Daniel.