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dicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power. He [the ruler] beareth not the sword in vain. Rom. xiii. 4. She quits the balance, and resigns the sword. Dryden.

Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.

A humming bird (Docimastes ensiferus) having a very long, slender bill, exceeding the length of the body of the bird.

Girded with a sword. Milton.

One who uses, or fights with, a sword; a swordsman; a soldier; a cutthroat. [Obs.] Shak.

lued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long.

The spotted gunnel (Murænoides gunnellus). [Prov. Eng.]

Slashing with a sword. Tennyson.

Destitute of a sword.

A swordsman. "Sinewy swordmen." Shak.

Fencing; a sword fight.

A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.

One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.

The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.

The limulus.

A sword with one sharp edge.

A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. I heard the broadsword's deadly clang. Sir W. Scott.

Half the length of a sword; close fight. "At half-sword." Shak.

To word wrongly; as, to misword a message, or a sentence.

A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign. Macaulay.