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a.
No longer hostile; friendly.
v. t.
To come in collision with; to confront in conflict; to encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated them; the ship met opposing winds and currents.
v. t.
To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city.
v. t.
To come together with hostile purpose; to have an encounter or conflict.
n.
A leap; a spring; a hostile advance.
v. i.
To make all things ready; to put things in order; as, to prepare for a hostile invasion.
v. t.
To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy.
a.
Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfriendly; as, a hostile force; hostile intentions; a hostile country; hostile to a sudden change.
adv.
In a hostile manner.
v. t.
To cover or keep in check; as, to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out.
n.
An enemy; esp., an American Indian in arms against the whites; -- commonly in the plural.
a.
Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; hostile; as, an unfriendly neighbor.
n.
A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
a.
Tending to awaken hostility; hostile; opposing; warring.
v.
To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
n.
That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot.
v. t.
The act of striking; a blow; a hit; a knock; esp., a violent or hostile attack made with the arm or hand, or with an instrument or weapon.
n.
State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.
n.
An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy.
n.
Anciently, an Arab; later, a Mussulman; in the Middle Ages, the common term among Christians in Europe for a Mohammedan hostile to the crusaders.
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