transferred. The use of the sword in warfare, massacre, etc.; hence, slaughter; warfare; military force or power; also, the military profession or…

Individual or collective power or resilience; an individual's or unit's power or resilience. Military capability in warfare; offensive or defensive…

An armed force, an army; (in plural) troops, forces (cf. force, n.1 4a). In early use also as a mass noun: armed force. Obsolete.

Power or might (of a ruler, realm, or the like); esp. military strength or power.

General attributive passing into adj., with the sense ‘belonging or attached to, or characteristic of, the land; living, situated, taking place…

abstract. Military force.

the arm with which the sword is wielded, the right arm; also rhetorically = military power or action, and figurative.

Put for: Military force; esp. in to rattle the sabre.

the art of using, or skill in the use of, the sword; military power.