A combat, battle. A hostile encounter or engagement between opposing forces; = battle, n. 1. Now archaic or rhetorical.

The rush together of two combatants in battle or tournament; charge, onset; a passage at arms, bout, encounter. Obsolete or Historical.

An armed combat or conflict; esp. a contest in battle; a fight. Obsolete exc. archaic.

An armed encounter; an attack.

An armed encounter; a fight, a battle. Obsolete.

? A setting oneself to fight, encounter, attack. Obsolete.

A military assault or attack; (also) an armed conflict, a battle. Also figurative. Obsolete.

A forcible rush, a hostile collision or encounter; in later use, chiefly a short but smart encounter.

Hostile meeting, conflict; = assembly, n. 3.

The raising of a host or armed multitude; hostile encounter or array, raid; an encampment; (formerly, esp. in Ireland) a military expedition.

A fight, a skirmish.

An encounter with arms; a fight, battle.

Combat or warfare. Also: the Church Militant (church, n.1 adj.compounds 2). Obsolete.

Collision (of weapons). Cf. grate, v.1 6.

An encounter or engagement between two opposing military forces; a battle, a skirmish.

A fierce combat or encounter.

A contest, struggle. Obsolete.

Hostile encounter or onset. Obsolete.

Running or rushing together; concourse.

An encounter, meeting, esp. a hostile or competitive one. Cf. recounter, n.1 2a, rencounter, n. 1. Obsolete.

An encounter, fray. Obsolete. rare.

= rencounter, n. 1a. Now rare.

Course of arms (cf. course, n. 3); combat. Obsolete.

A military engagement, a battle.

gen. A fight between opposing forces; struggle, contest; usually on a smaller scale than a battle. (Used both with and without a and plural)

A fight between two opposing combatants or forces; armed combat. Obsolete.

Originally English regional and nonstandard. A social event, a party; a performance or show. Also in extended use: spec. (originally humorous) a…