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1. appui | appuy, v. View full entry 1656
...To prop or stay; spec. in Mil. to post (troops) near some point which affords support....
2. † baˈlister, n.2 View full entry 1679
...An arbalest, a crossbow....
3. chiliarch, n. View full entry 1656
...The commander of a thousand men; properly a term of Greek or Roman History....
4. explosion, n. View full entry 1656
...The action of treating with scorn, rejecting or scouting (a notion, system, etc.); rejection....
5. frontal, adj. View full entry 1656
...Of or pertaining to the forehead, or to the corresponding part in the lower animals. Frequent in anatomical applications, as frontal artery, frontal bone, frontal sinus,...
6. halt, v.2 View full entry 1656
...intr. To make a halt; to make a temporary stoppage in a march or journey. (At first a military term only, but sometimes in later use a mere synonym of ‘stop’.)...
7. hipparch, n. View full entry 1656
...Commander of the horse; the title of officers appointed to command the cavalry in ancient Greece....
8. † oblat, n. View full entry 1656
...A disabled soldier given a place in a monastery; the benefit conferred on such a person, the actual means of maintaining him in such a place....
9. parade, n.2 View full entry 1656
...Show, display, ostentation; an instance of this. to make (a) parade of: to display ostentatiously....
10. sagittiferous, adj. View full entry 1656
...(See quots.)...
11. suicide, n.2 View full entry 1656
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12. teliferous, adj. View full entry 1656
...Bearing darts or missiles. Obs.rare....
13. ˈunder-ˌmarshal, n. View full entry 1670
...(under-3a(a).)...
14. vexillation, n. View full entry 1656
...A company of veteran soldiers (see vexillarya) or of soldiers grouped under one standard....
