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noun

Weapon n.

An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc. "The weapons of our warfare are not carnal." "They, astonished, all resistance lost, All courage; down their idle weapons dropped."

Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon. "Woman's weapons, water drops."

(Bot.) A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished.

Concealed weapons. See under Concealed.

Weapon salve, a salve which was supposed to cure a wound by being applied to the weapon that made it. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Weapon" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the eighteenth century Spain began to awake to the importance of action. Fortunately ready to her hand was a tried and tempered weapon. Just as the modern statesmen turn to commercial penetration, so Spain turned, as always, to religious occupation. She made use of the missionary spirit and she sent forth her expeditions ostensibly for the purpose of converting the heathen. The result was the so-called Sacred Expedition ...

— The Forty-Niners - A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado • Stewart Edward White

... pistol with him, but what would that puny weapon avail when pitted against a score or two of enemies; many of them armed soldiers of the Kaiser, who would ruthlessly fill him with lead at the first show of resistance on ...

— Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines - The German Spy's Secret • Charles Amory Beach

... these mahogany- complexioned executioners scurried like rats at the first cry. Most of them carried their arms with them, but Luc perceived a musket lying in a corner of the drill square. This he seized and levelled at Stephens, pulling the trigger, after careful aim. The rusty weapon missed fire, and the intrepid half-breed began hastily to chip the flint with the back of his sheath-knife; but while he was engaged in this laudable preparation, Annette came over the earthworks like a bird, smote him with the handle of her whip upon the ...

— Annette, The Metis Spy • Joseph Edmund Collins

... exercised in France to the widest extent; Cardinal Richelieu could never have maintained himself but for his quick and energetic use of it. In all other states, as well republican as monarchical, it was a weapon with which the government thought that it could not dispense. Was it to be dropped in England alone? And that too at a moment when the opposition of factions was constantly becoming more active? In fact ...

— A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) • Leopold von Ranke

... now. Another wolf attacked from the front and fell under the axe. A little longer they parleyed. They were gradually growing more bold and narrowing the circle—coming so close that they were almost within reach of the swinging weapon. Finally a wolf on the right, and one on the left, charged at the same time, and in an instant those in front, as though acting upon a prearranged signal, closed in, and the pack became one ...

— Ungava Bob - A Winter's Tale • Dillon Wallace

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