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A vagabond. [Obs.] Spenser.

foot soldiers; now used chiefly in hunting the wild boar and other fierce game. Flies the javelin swifter to its mark, Launched by the vigor of a Roman arm Addison.

A soldier armed with a javelin. Holland.

A spear used by tribes in South Africa as a missile and for stabbing, a kind of light javelin.

A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow. And he [Joab] took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom. 2 Sa. xviii. 14.

400-meter run, throwing the discus, a 100-meter hurdle race, pole vaulting, throwing the javelin, and a 1500-meter run.

A discus; a quoit. Some whirl the disk, and some the javelin dart. Pope.

A blunt javelin used in military games in Moslem countries.

; -- said of games or exercises, as running, leaping, wrestling, throwing the discus, the javelin, etc.; also, pertaining to disciplinary exercises for the intellect; athletic; as, gymnastic exercises, contests, etc.

A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, fiat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun. Harpoon fork, a kind of hayfork, consisting of bar with hinged barbs at one end a loop for a rope…

A blunt javelin used by the people of the Levant, especially in mock fights. [Written also jerreed, jerid.] Byron.

A military engine formerly used for throwing stones and javelins.

A bearing representing the head of a dart or javelin, with long barbs which are engrailed on the inner edge.

A huge bow fixed on the wall of a fortified town for casting javelins.

also that the manner of making the shed of newwedded wives' hair with the iron head of a javelin came up then likewise. Sir T. North.

or hurling. Profpesy, and smite thine hands together. Ezek. xxi. 14. Saul . . . smote the javelin into the wall. 1 Sam. xix. 10.

To hurl; to throw; to cast. [Obs.] I'll thrill my javelin. Heywood.

usually followed by off. Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again. Daniel. The pointed javelin warded off his rage. Addison. It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections. I. Watts.