noun. A weapon consisting typically of a long, straight or slightly curved, pointed blade having one or two cutting edges and set into a hilt.

noun. An instrument of death or destruction.

noun. undefined

noun. The use of force, as in war.

noun. Military power or jurisdiction.

idiom. (at swords' points) Ready for a fight.

idiom. (put to the sword) To kill; slay.

To strike or slash with a sword.

noun. One of the standards upon which oscillates the slay or lathe of a loom.

noun. A bar or blade, in a measuring-machine, upon which cloths are rolled or wound.

noun. Another spelling of sward.

noun. An offensive weapon consisting of an edged blade fixed in a hilt composed of a grip, a guard, and a pommel. See hilt.

noun. Figuratively, the power of the sword—that is, the power of sovereignty, implying overruling justice rather than military force.

noun. Specifically, military force or power, whether in the sense of reserved strength or of active warfare; also, the military profession; the profession of arms; arms generally.

noun. The cause of death or destruction.

noun. Conflict; war.

noun. Any utensil or tool somewhat resembling a sword in form or in use, as a swingle used in flax-dressing.

noun. The prolonged snout of a swordfish or a sawfish.

noun. A light sword used for modern fencing with the point only, introduced about the middle of the seventeenth century and replacing, about 1700, all other blades except the heavy saber used in warfare. The small sword proper has a blade of triangular section, usually concave on each of the three sides, so as to be extremely light in proportion to its rigidity, and its hilt is usually without quillons, but has always a knuckle-bow and usually two shells.

noun. An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp-pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.

noun. Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.

noun. Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.

noun. The military power of a country.

noun. One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

noun. the right arm.

noun. a bayonet shaped somewhat like a sword, and which can be used as a sword.

noun. one who carries his master's sword; an officer in London who carries a sword before the lord mayor when he goes abroad.

noun. a belt by which a sword is suspended, and borne at the side.

noun. the blade, or cutting part, of a sword.

noun. a cane which conceals the blade of a sword or dagger, as in a sheath.

noun. A dance performed over swords laid on the ground, but without touching them.

noun. fencing; a combat or trial of skill with swords; swordplay.

noun. See Gladen.

noun. a ribbon tied to the hilt of a sword.

noun. government by the sword, or by force; violence.

noun. See Gladiolus.

noun. a mat closely woven of yarns; -- so called from a wooden implement used in its manufacture.

noun. a European shrimp (Pasiphæa sivado) having a very thin, compressed body.

noun. a sword cane.

noun. See under Measure, v. t.

noun. See under Put.

noun. A long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, cut or slash.

noun. Someone paid to handle a sword.

noun. A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.

noun. A card of this suit.

noun. a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard

"A sword is not, however, in virtue of the meaning of the word ˜sword™, a phase of anything, and to use the term to name a phase of something in a given case, when it suits, is ad hoc."

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