V. arm; raise troops, mobilize troops; raise up in arms; take up the cudgels &c 720; take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword; draw the sword, unsheathe the sword; dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk; go to war, wage war, let slip the dogs of war [Julius Caesar]; cry havoc; kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war; raise one's banner, raise the fire cross; hoist the black flag; throw away, fling away the scabbard; enroll, enlist; take the field; take the law into one's own hands; do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle; flesh one's sword; set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords; come to blows, come to close quarters; fight; combat; contend &c 720; battle with, break a lance with.
[pirates engage in battle] raise the jolly roger, run up the jolly roger.
serve; see service, be on service, be on active service; campaign; wield the sword, shoulder a musket, smell powder, be under fire; spill blood, imbrue the hands in blood; on the warpath.
carry on war, carry on hostilities; keep the field; fight the good fight; fight it out, fight like devils, fight one's way, fight hand to hand; sell one's life dearly; pay the ferryman's fee.
Adj. contending, contentious &c 720; armed, armed to the teeth, armed cap-a-pie; sword in hand; in arms, under arms, up in arms; at war with; bristling with arms; in battle array, in open arms, in the field; embattled; battled.
unpacific†, unpeaceful†; belligerent, combative, armigerous†, bellicose, martial, warlike; military, militant; soldier-like, soldierly.
chivalrous; strategical, internecine.
Adv. flagrante bello [Lat.], in the thick of the fray, in the cannon's mouth; at the sword's point, at the point of the bayonet.
Int. vae victis! [Lat.], to arms!, to your tents O Israel!,
Phr. the battle rages; a la guerre comme a la guerre [Fr.]; bis peccare in bello non licet [Lat.]; jus gladii [Lat.]; my voice is still for war [Addison]; 'tis well that war is so terrible, otherwise we might grow fond of it [Robert E.
Lee]; my sentence is for open war [Milton]; pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war [Othello]; the cannons have their bowels full of wrath [King John]; the cannons aspit forth their iron indignation [King John]; the fire-eyed maid of smoky war [Henry IV]; silent leges inter arma [Lat.] [Cicero]; si vis pacem para bellum [Lat.].
723. Pacification -- N. pacification, conciliation; reconciliation, reconcilement; shaking of hands, accommodation, arrangement, adjustment; terms, compromise; amnesty, deed of release.
peace offering; olive branch; calumet of peace, preliminaries of peace.
truce, armistice; suspension of arms, suspension of hostilities, stand-down; breathing time; convention; modus vivendi [Lat.]; flag of truce, white flag, parlementaire [Fr.], cartel†.
hollow truce, pax in bello [Lat.]; drawn battle.
V. pacify, tranquilize, compose; allay &c (moderate) 174; reconcile, propitiate, placate, conciliate, meet halfway, hold out the olive branch, heal the breach, make peace, restore harmony, bring to terms.
settle matters, arrange matters, accommodate matters, accommodate differences; set straight; make up a quarrel, tantas componere lites [Lat.]; come to an understanding, come to terms; bridge over, hush up; make it, make matters up; shake hands; mend one's fences [U.S.].
raise a siege, lift a siege; put up the sword, sheathe the sword; bury the hatchet, lay down one's arms, turn swords into plowshares; smoke the calumet of peace, close the temple of Janus; keep the peace &c (concord) 714; be pacified &c; come round.
Adj. conciliatory; composing &c v.; pacified &c v..
Phr. requiescat in pace [Lat.].
724. Mediation -- N. mediation, mediatorship†, mediatization†; intervention, interposition, interference, intermeddling, intercession; arbitration; flag of truce &c 723; good offices, peace offering; parley, negotiation; diplomatics†, diplomacy; compromise &c 774.
[person who mediates] mediator, arbitrator, intercessor, peacemaker, makepeace†, negotiator, go-between; diplomatist &c (consignee) 758; moderator; propitiator; umpire.
V. mediate, mediatize†; intercede, interpose, interfere, intervene; step in, negotiate; meet halfway; arbitrate; magnas componere lites [Lat.].
bargain &c 794
Adj. mediatory.
725. Submission -- N. submission, yielding; nonresistance; obedience &c 743.
surrender, cession, capitulation, resignation; backdown†.
obeisance, homage, kneeling, genuflexion†, courtesy, curtsy, kowtow, prostration.
V. succumb, submit, yeild, bend, resign, defer to.
lay down one's arms, deliver up one's arms; lower colors, haul down colors, strike one's flag, strike colors.
surrender, surrender at discretion; cede, capitulate, come to terms, retreat, beat a retreat; draw in one's horns &c (humility) 879; give way, give round, give in, give up; cave in; suffer judgment by default; bend, bend to one's yoke, bend before the storm; reel back; bend down, knuckle down, knuckle to, knuckle under; knock under.
eat dirt, eat the leek, eat humble pie; bite the dust, lick the dust; be at one's feet, fall at one's feet; craven; crouch before, throw oneself at the feet of; swallow the leek, swallow the pill; kiss the rod; turn the other cheek; avaler les couleuvres [Fr.], gulp down.
obey &c 743; kneel to, bow to, pay homage to, cringe to, truckle to; bend the neck, bend the knee; kneel, fall on one's knees, bow submission, courtesy, curtsy, kowtow.
pocket the affront; make the best of, make a virtue of necessity; grin and abide, grin and bear it, shrug the shoulders, resign oneself; submit with a good grace &c (bear with) 826.
Adj. surrendering &c v.; submissive, resigned, crouching; downtrodden; down on one's marrow bones; on one's bended knee; unresistant, unresisting, nonresisting; pliant &c (soft) 324; undefended.
untenable, indefensible; humble &c 879.
Phr. have it your own way; it can't be helped; amen &c (assent) 488; da locum melioribus [Lat.]; tempori parendum [Lat.].
726. Combatant -- N. combatant; disputant, controversialist, polemic, litigant, belligerent; competitor, rival, corrival†; fighter, assailant; champion, Paladin; mosstrooper†, swashbuckler fire eater, duelist, bully, bludgeon man, rough.
prize fighter, pugilist, boxer, bruiser, the fancy, gladiator, athlete, wrestler; fighting-cock, game-cock; warrior, soldier, fighting man, Amazon, man at arms, armigerent†; campaigner, veteran; swordsman, sabreur†, redcoat, military man, Rajput.
armed force, troops, soldiery, military forces, sabaoth†, the army, standing army, regulars, the line, troops of the line, militia, yeomanry, volunteers, trainband, fencible†; auxiliary, bersagliere†, brave; garde-nationale, garde-royale [Fr.]; minuteman [U.S.]; auxiliary forces, reserve forces; reserves, posse comitatus [Lat.], national guard, gendarme, beefeater; guards, guardsman; yeomen of the guard, life guards, household troops.
janissary; myrmidon; Mama, Mameluke; spahee†, spahi†, Cossack, Croat, Pandoz.
irregular, guerilla, partisan, condottiere†; franctireur [Fr.], tirailleur†, bashi-bazouk; [guerilla organization names: list], vietminh, vietcong; shining path; contras; huk, hukbalahap.
mercenary, soldier of fortune; hired gun, gunfighter, gunslinger; bushwhacker, free lance, companion; Hessian.
hit man torpedo, soldier.
levy, draught; Landwehr [G.], Landsturm [G.]; conscript, recruit, cadet, raw levies.
infantry, infantryman, private, private soldier, foot soldier; Tommy Atkins†, rank and file, peon, trooper, sepoy†, legionnaire, legionary, cannon fodder, food for powder; officer &c (commander) 745; subaltern, ensign, standard bearer; spearman, pikeman†; spear bearer; halberdier†, lancer; musketeer, carabineer†, rifleman, jager [G.], sharpshooter, yager†, skirmisher; grenadier, fusileer†; archer, bowman.
horse and foot; horse soldier; cavalry, horse, artillery, horse artillery, light horse, voltigeur [Fr.], uhlan, mounted rifles, dragoon, hussar; light dragoon, heavy dragoon; heavy; cuirassier [Fr.]; Foot Guards, Horse Guards.
gunner, cannoneer, bombardier, artilleryman†, matross†; sapper, sapper and miner; engineer; light infantry, rifles, chasseur [Fr.], zouave; military train, coolie.
army, corps d'armee [Fr.], host, division, battalia†, column, wing, detachment, garrison, flying column, brigade, regiment, corps, battalion, sotnia†, squadron, company, platoon, battery, subdivision, section, squad; piquet, picket, guard, rank, file; legion, phalanx, cohort; cloud of skirmishers.
war horse, charger, destrier.
marine, man-of-war's man &c (sailor) 269; navy, wooden walls, naval forces, fleet, flotilla, armada, squadron.
[ships of war] man-of-war; destroyer; submarine; minesweeper; torpedo-boat, torpedo-destroyer; patrol torpedo boat, PT boat; torpedo-catcher, war castle, H.M.S.; battleship, battle wagon, dreadnought, line of battle ship, ship of the line; aircraft carrier, carrier.
flattop [Coll.]; helicopter carrier; missile platform, missile boat; ironclad, turret ship, ram, monitor, floating battery; first-rate, frigate, sloop of war, corvette, gunboat, bomb vessel; flagship, guard ship, cruiser; armored cruiser, protected cruiser; privateer.
[supporting ships] tender; store ship, troop ship; transport, catamaran; merchant marine.
727. Arms -- N. arm, arms; weapon, deadly weapon; armament, armaments, armature; panoply, stand of arms; armor &c (defense) 717; armory &c (store) 636; apparatus belli [Lat.].
ammunition; powder, powder and shot; cartridge; ball cartridge, cartouche, fireball; villainous saltpeter [Henry IV]; dumdum bullet.
explosive; gunpowder, guncotton; mercury fulminate; picrates; pentaerythritol tetranitrate, PETN.
high explosive; trinitrotoluene, TNT; dynamite, melinite†, cordite, lyddite, plastic explosive, plastique; pyroxyline†.
[knives and swords: list] sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion†, scimitar, cimeter†, brand, whinyard, bilbo, glaive†, glave†, rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck, claymore, adaga†, baselard†, Lochaber ax, skean dhu†, creese†, kris, dagger, dirk, banger†, poniard, stiletto, stylet†, dudgeon, bayonet; sword-bayonet, sword-stick; side arms, foil, blade, steel; ax, bill; pole-ax, battle-ax; gisarme†, halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife†; ataghan†, attaghan†, yataghan†; yatacban†; assagai, assegai†; good sword, trusty sword, naked sword; cold steel.
club, mace, truncheon, staff, bludgeon, cudgel, life preserver, shillelah, sprig; hand staff, quarter staff; bat, cane, stick, knuckle duster; billy, blackjack, sandbag, waddy†.
gun, piece [Fr.]; firearms; artillery, ordnance; siege train, battering train; park, battery; cannon, gun of position, heavy gun, field piece [Fr.], mortar, howitzer, carronade†, culverin†, basilisk; falconet, jingal†, swivel, pederero†, bouche a feu [Fr.]; petard, torpedo; mitrailleur [Fr.], mitrailleuse [Fr.]; infernal machine; smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun†, Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine gun; pompom†; ten pounder.
small arms; musket, musketry, firelock†, fowling piece [Fr.], rifle, fusil†, caliver†, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon†, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss†, arquebus, haguebut†; pistol, postolet†; petronel; small bore; breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle; needle gun, chassepot†; wind gun, air gun; automatic gun, automatic pistol; escopet†, escopette†, gunflint, gun-lock; hackbut†, shooter, shooting iron [U.S.], six-shooter [U.S.], shotgun; Uzzi, assault rifle, Kalashnikov.
bow, crossbow, balister†, catapult, sling; battering ram &c (impulse) 276; gunnery; ballistics &c (propulsion) 284.
missile, bolt, projectile, shot, ball; grape; grape shot, canister shot, bar shot, cannon shot, langrel shot†, langrage shot†, round shot, chain shot; balista†, ballista†, slung shot, trebucbet†, trebucket†; bullet, slug, stone, brickbat, grenade, shell, bomb, carcass, rocket; congreve†, congreve rocket†; shrapnel, mitraille [Fr.]; levin bolt†, levin brand†; thunderbolt.
pike, lance, spear, spontoon†, javelin, dart, jereed†, jerid†, arrow, reed, shaft, bolt, boomerang, harpoon, gaff; eelspear†, oxgoad†, weet-weet, wommerah†; cattle prod; chemical mace.
Phr. en flute; nervos belli pecuniam infinitam [Lat.].
728. Arena -- N. arena, field, platform; scene of action, theater; walk, course; hustings; stare, boards &c (playhouse) 599; amphitheater; Coliseum, Colosseum; Flavian amphitheater, hippodrome, circus, race course, corso [Sp.], turf, cockpit, bear garden, playground, gymnasium, palestra, ring, lists; tiltyard†, tilting ground; Campus Martins, Champ de Allars†; campus [U.S.].
boxing ring, canvas.
theater of war, seat of war; battle-field, battle-ground; field of battle, field of slaughter; Aceldama†, camp; the enemy's camp; trusting place &c (place of meeting) 74.
SECTION V.
RESULTS OF VOLUNTARY ACTION
729. Completion -- N. completion, accomplishment, achievement, fulfillment; performance, execution; despatch, dispatch; consummation, culmination; finish, conclusion; close &c (end) 67; terminus &c (arrival) 292; winding up; finale, denouement, catastrophe, issue, upshot, result; final touch, last touch, crowning touch, finishing touch, finishing stroke; last finish, coup de grace; crowning of the edifice; coping-stone, keystone; missing link &c 53; superstructure, ne plus ultra [Lat.], work done, fait accompli [Fr.].
elaboration; finality; completeness &c 52.
V. effect, effectuate; accomplish, achieve, compass, consummate, hammer out; bring to maturity, bring to perfection; perfect, complete; elaborate.
do, execute, make; go through, get through; work out, enact; bring about, bring to bear, bring to pass, bring through, bring to a head.
despatch, dispatch; knock off, finish off, polish off; make short work of; dispose of, set at rest; perform, discharge, fulfill, realize; put in practice, put in force; carry out, carry into effect, carry into execution; make good; be as good as one's word.
do thoroughly, not do by halves, go the whole hog; drive home; be in at the death &c (persevere) 604.1; carry through, play out, exhaust; fill the bill [U.S.].
finish, bring to a close &c (end) 67; wind up, stamp, clinch, seal, set the seal on, put the seal; give the final touch &c n.. to; put the last, put the finishing hand to, put the finishing touches on; crown, crown all; cap.
ripen, culminate; come to a head, come to a crisis; come to its end; die a natural death, die of old age; run its course, run one's race; touch the goal, reach the goal, attain the goal; reach &c (arrive) 292; get in the harvest.
Adj. completing, final; concluding, conclusive; crowning &c v.; exhaustive.
done, completed &c v.; done for, sped, wrought out; highly wrought &c (preparation) 673; thorough &c 52; ripe &c (ready) 673.
Adv. completely &c (thoroughly) 52; to crown all, out of hand.
Phr. the race is run; actum est [Lat.]; finis coronat opus [Lat.]; consummatum est [Lat.]; c'en est fait [Fr.]; it is all over; the game is played out, the bubble has burst; aussitot dit aussitot fait [Fr.]; aut non tentaris aut perfice [Lat.] [Ovid].
730. Noncompletion -- N. noncompletion, nonfulfillment; shortcoming &c 304; incompleteness &c 53; drawn battle, drawn game; work of Penelope.
nonperformance, inexecution†; neglect &c 460.
V. not complete &c 729; leave unfinished &c adj., leave undone, drop, put down; neglect &c 460; let alone, let slip; lose sight of (forget) 506.
fall short of &c 304; do things by halves, parboil, scotch the snake not lull it; hang fire; be slow to; collapse &c 304.
drop out.
Adj. not completed &c v.; incomplete &c 53; uncompleted, unfinished, unaccomplished, unperformed, unexecuted; sketchy, addle.
in progress, in hand; ongoing, going on, proceeding; on one's hands; on the anvil; in the fire, in the oven.
parboiled, half-baked.
Adv. re infecta [Lat.].
731. Success -- N. success, successfulness; speed; advance &c (progress) 282.
trump card; hit, stroke, score; lucky hit, fortunate hit, good hit, good stroke; direct hit, bull's eye; goal, point, touchdown; home run, homer, hole-in-one, grand slam; killing [make money], windfall bold stroke, master stroke; ten strike [U.S.]; coup de maitre [Fr.], checkmate; half the battle, prize; profit &c (acquisition) 775.
continued success; good fortune &c (prosperity) 734; time well spent.
advantage over; upper hand, whip hand; ascendancy, mastery; expugnation†, conquest, victory, subdual†; subjugation &c (subjection) 749.
triumph &c (exultation) 884; proficiency &c (skill) 698.
conqueror, victor, winner; master of the situation, master of the position, top of the heap, king of the hill; achiever, success, success story.
V. succeed; be successful &c adj.; gain one's end, gain one's ends; crown with success.
gain a point, attain a point, carry a point, secure a point, win a point, win an object; get there [U.S.]; manage to, contrive to; accomplish &c (effect) (complete) 729; do wonders, work wonders; make a go of it.
come off well, come off successful, come off with flying colors; make short work of; take by storm, carry by storm; bear away the bell; win one's wings, win one's spurs, win the battle; win the day, carry the day, gain the day, gain the prize, gain the palm; have the best of it, have it all one's own way, have the game in one's owns hands, have the ball at one's feet, have one on the hop; walk over the course; carry all before one, remain in possession of the field; score a success.
speed; make progress &c (advance) 282; win one's way, make one's way, work one's way, find one's way; strive to some purpose; prosper &c 734; drive a roaring trade; make profit &c (acquire) 775; reap the fruits, gather the fruits, reap the benefit of, reap the harvest; strike oil [U.S.], gain a windfall; make one's fortune, get in the harvest, turn to good account; turn to account &c (use) 677.
triumph, be triumphant; gain a victory, obtain a victory, gain an advantage; chain victory to one's car; nail a coonskin to the wall.
surmount a difficulty, overcome a difficulty, get over a difficulty, get over an obstacle &c 706; se tirer d'affaire [Fr.]; make head against; stem the torrent, stem the tide, stem the current; weather the storm, weather a point; turn a corner, keep one's head above water, tide over; master; get the better of, have the better of, gain the better of, gain the best of, gain the upper hand, gain the ascendancy, gain the whip hand, gain the start of; distance; surpass &c (superiority) 33.
defeat, conquer, vanquish, discomfit; euchre; overcome, overthrow, overpower, overmaster, overmatch, overset†, override, overreach; outwit, outdo, outflank, outmaneuver, outgeneral, outvote; take the wind out of one's adversary's sails; beat, beat hollow; rout, lick, drub, floor, worst; put down, put to flight, put to the rout, put hors de combat [Fr.], put out of court.
silence, quell, nonsuit†, checkmate, upset, confound, nonplus, stalemate, trump; baffle &c (hinder) 706; circumvent, elude; trip up, trip up the heels of; drive into a corner, drive to the wall; run hard, put one's nose out of joint.
settle, do for; break the neck of, break the back of; capsize, sink, shipwreck, drown, swamp; subdue; subjugate &c (subject) 749; reduce; make the enemy bite the dust; victimize, roll in the dust, trample under foot, put an extinguisher upon.
answer, answer the purpose; avail, prevail, take effect, do, turn out well, work well, take, tell, bear fruit; hit it, hit the mark, hit the right nail on the head; nick it; turn up trumps, make a hit; find one's account in.
Adj. succeeding &c v.; successful; prosperous &c 734; triumphant; flushed with success, crowned with success; victorious, on top; set up; in the ascendant; unbeaten &c (beat) &c v.; well-spent; felicitous, effective, in full swing.
Adv. successfully &c adj.; well flying colors, in triumph, swimmingly; a merveille [Fr.], beyond all hope; to some purpose, to good purpose; to one's heart's content.
Phr. veni vidi vici [Lat.], the day being one's own, one's star in the ascendant; omne tulit punctum [Lat.].
bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria [Lat.]; cede repugnanti cedendo victor abibis [Lat.] [Ovid]; chacun est l'artisan de sa fortune [Fr.]; dies faustus [Lat.]; l'art de vaincre est celui de mepriser la mort [Fr.]; omnia vincit amor [Lat.], love conquers all; peace hath her victories no less renowned than war [Milton]; the race by vigor not by vaunts is won [Pope]; vincit qui patitur [Lat.]; vincit qui se vincit [Lat.]; The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet [Mark Twain].
732. Failure -- N. failure; nonsuccess†, nonfulfillment; dead failure, successlessness†; abortion, miscarriage; brutum fulmen &c 158 [Lat.]; labor in vain &c (inutility) 645; no go; inefficacy†; inefficaciousness &c adj.; vain attempt, ineffectual attempt, abortive attempt, abortive efforts; flash in the pan, lame and impotent conclusion [Othello]; frustration; slip 'twixt cup and lip &c (disappointment) 509.
blunder &c (mistake) 495; fault, omission, miss, oversight, slip, trip, stumble, claudication†, footfall; false step, wrong step; faux pas [Fr.], titubation†, b_evue [Fr.], faute [Fr.], lurch; botchery &c (want of skill) 699 [Obs.]; scrape, mess, fiasco, breakdown; flunk [U.S.].
mishap &c (misfortune) 735; split, collapse, smash, blow, explosion.
repulse, rebuff, defeat, rout, overthrow, discomfiture; beating, drubbing; quietus, nonsuit†, subjugation; checkmate, stalemate, fool's mate.
fall, downfall, ruin, perdition; wreck &c (destruction) 162; deathblow; bankruptcy &c (nonpayment) 808.
losing game, affaire flamb_ee.
victim; bankrupt; flunker†, flunky [U.S.].
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