intransitive. To work, labour (Old English); to strive, contend, fight. Obsolete.

intransitive. To contend in battle or single combat.

intransitive. To contend, strive; also, to contend in words, chide, wrangle. Const. against, on, with.

intransitive. To wrestle; to contend, strive. Also figurative.

To contend or struggle in hostility or opposition (with or against another or others).

intransitive. To fight, quarrel, wrangle; to do battle. Also transitive in to cock it. Obsolete.

intransitive. To contend, strive, quarrel, dispute.

To contend, carry on a conflict of any kind; esp. to contend with another or each other for (the possession of) something or for (a cause or…

intransitive. To contend, strive, quarrel, bluster. Obsolete.

intransitive. To fight, struggle, strive. Obsolete.

Phr. to have, hold, make, take strife: to contend, quarrel (with). Obsolete.

intransitive. To bestir or exert oneself, put forth one's strength or energy; to strive, contend, fight.

intransitive. To fight, contend, strive, quarrel, wrangle. Obsolete.

To contend, fight, strive, with blows or arguments. Const. on. Obsolete.

figurative. To contend resolutely, esp. with an adversary of superior power; to offer obstinate resistance; to make violent efforts to escape…

intransitive. To strive, contend: see hurling, n. 3. Obsolete.

intransitive. To contend or struggle with, or do battle for (a person or thing). Obsolete (archaic in 19th-cent. use).

figurative. Of persons: To contend, fight with immaterial weapons; to carry on a metaphorical warfare… simply.

intransitive. To experience physical difficulty, to struggle; to move with a struggle or an effort. Also figurative and in figurative contexts…

Chiefly Scottish. intransitive. To strive, contend, vie; to quarrel. Also transitive with infinitive. Obsolete.

To strive in opposition; to engage in conflict or strife; to fight. Const. with, against (an opponent), for, about (an object).

To fight, strive, or contend; to offer opposition or resistance; to rebel; to be recalcitrant; to… intransitive. With at. Now rare.

intransitive. To contend, struggle.

intransitive. To contend, make trouble with. Obsolete.

To contend, strive in opposition. Now rare.

intransitive. To be or to engage in a broil; to contend in a confused struggle, irregular fight or strife.

intransitive. To contend in words; to inveigh against; to argue, dispute; to quarrel, bicker, disagree; to wrangle about terms, haggle.

Scottish. intransitive. To join battle; to engage with an opponent, enemy, etc. Also: to fight, dispute; to argue or contend heatedly. Obsolete.

intransitive. To struggle, scuffle; to contend (with, for). to bustle it out: to fight it out. Obsolete.

intransitive. To contend, strive, fight. (Cf. Cotgrave ‘Se bander contre, to bandie, or oppose himselfe against.’)

intransitive. To engage in a tilt or joust; to joust.

figurative.

Wrestling. A bout at wrestling (with another person). Chiefly with particular verbs, as to go (also †shake, try, wrestle) a fall, etc. Frequently…

intransitive. To contend or strive with; to quarrel. Obsolete.

intransitive. Of a person, institution, etc.: to contend in the manner of a soldier; to exert power or influence; to campaign; to strive.

intransitive. To engage in combat.

transferred and figurative. Now rare; in the 17th cent. often with the sense: †To contend vigorously or resolutely.

to run (or ride) a-tilt: i.e. in an encounter on horseback with the thrust of a lance. Now usually figurative of controversial encounters. Const. at…

intransitive in various nonce-uses: To struggle, contend against; to struggle through difficulties; to contend in rivalry. Obsolete.

intransitive. To strive or contend (in a general sense).

intransitive. With for: to strive or contend for (a desired object, an issue, principle, etc.). Also with up and with (cf. sense 2d). Now somewhat…

figurative. To contend, strive, struggle with.

intransitive. With with: to contend with, to fight. Obsolete.

To contend otherwise than with arguments (e.g. with arms); to strive, struggle. Obsolete.

intransitive. figurative. Frequently of a witness: to fence with (rarely trans. to fence), to parry, try to evade (a question).

intransitive. To resist; to strive, contend.

intransitive. To strive or struggle with others for mastery; to contend with a crowd for a share of food, coin, wealth, etc. Cf. scamble, v. 1.

(with indefinite object) to battle it (literal and figurative).

intransitive. To pull, tear, or tug (at something); to struggle, wrestle. Also figurative. Frequently in to rug and rive (cf. rive, v.1). Now rare.

= grapple, v. 8. rare.

intransitive. To deal blows, fight, contend, struggle.

intransitive. To struggle or contend in a vigorous and determined way; to wrestle confusedly; to scuffle. in figurative use.

figurative and in figurative contexts. intransitive. To make a foray at or towards something; to reconnoitre, scout, be on the lookout. Obsolete.

intransitive. To dispute, contend. Cf. passage, n. 15, passaging, n.2 1. Obsolete. rare.

transferred. To fight, to engage in conflict or argument (with or up with); also figurative and loosely, to associate or become involved with. collo…