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weapon |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Weapon \Weap"on\ (?; 277), n. [OE. wepen, AS w?pen; akin to OS w?pan, OFries w?pin, w?pen, D. wapen, G. waffe, OHG. waffan w[=a]fan, Icel. v[=a]pn, Dan. vaaben Sw vapen, Goth. w?pna, pl.; of uncertain origin. Cf {Wapentake}.] 1. 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. --2 Cor. x. 4. They astonished, all resistance lost, All courage; down their idle weapons dropped. --Milton. 2. Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as argument was his only weapon. ``Woman's weapons, water drops.'' --Shak. 3. (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.] --Boyle. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: weapon n 1: weaponry used in fighting or hunting; "he was licensed to carry a weapon" [syn: {arm}, {weapon system}] 2: a means of persuading or arguing; "he used all his conversational weapons" [syn: {artillery}]
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