Contention, strife, dispute; in Old English also, a contention at law; a suit, cause, action.

Strife, contention, quarrelling.

Controversy, debate, contention, strife; a quarrel. Now Scottish.

The action of threaping; contradiction, contention, argument, discussion; controversy, dispute; strife, quarrel, contest.

Strife, contention; a quarrel. Now English regional.

In early use, figurative and transferred, in various shades of meaning, referring in some way to the… Contention; quarrel; strife.

Strife, contention, dissension, quarrelling, wrangling; a quarrel. at debate: at strife, at variance. Obsolete or archaic.

The action of chop, v.1, in various senses.

Argument or contention between parties, esp. over a right, claim, etc.; strife, discord. Obsolete.

A quarrel, an argument; strife, contention.

The action of quarrel, v.; spec. †duelling (obsolete). Also: an instance of this.

Strife.

spec. Disagreement, quarrelling; (in later use especially as a count noun) a disagreement, a quarrel.

A quarrel, dispute, wrangle; discord, dissension, quarrelling. Cf. phrases 2 and square, v. 8. Obsolete.

Discord, contention, tumult; a state of discord; a dispute, quarrel. Frequently in in (a) mutiny, at (a) mutiny. Obsolete.

Dissension, wrangling, contention. Obsolete.

Contention, strife. rare.

The action of swagger, v.; the behaviour of a swaggerer; †quarrelling.

Quarrelsomeness. Now rare (in later use with allusion to Shakespeare).

Quarrelling.

Scottish after Old English. The action of twisting, wringing, or contorting something, or of bending something out of shape. Also figurative…