Word Meanings - OUTRANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The utmost or last extremity. Combat à outrance, a fight to the end, or to the death.

Related words: (words related to OUTRANCE)

• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• COMBAT
  To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight. To combat with a blind man I disdain. Milton. After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters. Gibbon.
• COMBATTANT
  In the position of fighting; -- said of two lions set face to face, each rampant.
• FIGHTINGLY
  Pugnaciously.
• DEATHWATCH
  A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
• COMBATABLE
  Such as can be, or is liable to be, combated; as, combatable foes, evils, or arguments.
• FIGHT
  fechten, Sw. fäkta, Dan. fegte, and perh. to E. fist; cf. L. pugnare 1. To strive or contened for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in
• DEATHWARD
  Toward death.
• COMBATIVENESS
  A cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition. (more info) 1. The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.
• FIGHTWITE
  A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.
• COMBATANT
  Contending; disposed to contend. B. Jonson.
• DEATH
  Loss of spiritual life. To be death. Rom. viii. 6. 9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death. It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. Atterbury. And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. Judg. xvi. 16. Note: Death
• DEATHFULNESS
  Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor.
• DEATH'S-HERB
  The deadly nightshade . Dr. Prior.
• FIGHTING
  1. Qualified for war; fit for battle. An host of fighting men. 2 Chron. xxvi. 11. 2. Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field. Pope. A fighting chance, one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. -- Fighting crab ,
• DEATHBED
  The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness. That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray.
• OUTRANCE
  The utmost or last extremity. Combat à outrance, a fight to the end, or to the death.
• FOOTFIGHT
  A conflict by persons on foot; -- distinguished from a fight on horseback. Sir P. Sidney.
• INTERCOMBAT
  Combat. Daniel.
• CAMPFIGHT
  A duel; the decision of a case by a duel.
• BUSHFIGHTING
  Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets.
• BUSHFIGHTER
  One accustomed to bushfighting. Parkman.
• CLOSE-FIGHTS
  Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters.
• COCKFIGHTING
  The act or practice of pitting gamecocks to fight.
• HANDYFIGHT
  A fight with the hands; boxing. "Pollux loves handyfights." B. Jonson.