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One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.

e who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors.

n antagonist; a contestant. [Obs.] In all notable changes and revolutions the contendents have been still made a prey to the third party. L'Estrange.

One who contends; a contestant.

A female contestant. [R.]

(c) In wrestling, boxing, etc., a term applied to the lightest of the classes into which contestants are divided; -- in contradistinction to light weight, middle weight, and heavy weight. A feather in the cap an honour, trophy, or mark of distinction. [Colloq.] -- To be in full feather, to be in full dress or in one's…

A hold in which an arm of one contestant is held twisted and bent behind his back by his opponent.

ght, in wrestling, boxing, etc., a term applied to the heaviest of the classes into which contestants are divided. Cf. Feather weight (c), under Feather.

One of the contestants in interference before the Patent Office. [U.S.]

The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket.

A greedy and unceremonious contestant.

practiced players. -- Scrub race, a race between scrubs, or between untrained animals or contestants.

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

ho wrestles; specif., the sport consisting of the hand-to-hand combat between two unarmed contestants who seek to throw each other. The various styles of wrestling differ in their definition of a fall and in the governing rules. In Greco-Roman wrestling, tripping and taking hold of the legs are forbidden, and a fall is…