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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Fight, n.
 1. A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc.
    Who now defies thee thrice to single fight.   --Milton.
 2. A struggle or contest of any kind.
 3. Strength or disposition for fighting; pugnacity; as, he has a great deal of fight in him. [Colloq.]
 4. A screen for the combatants in ships. [Obs.]
    Up with your fights, and your nettings prepare.   --Dryden.
 Running fight, a fight in which the enemy is continually chased; also, one which continues without definite end or result.
 Syn: -- Combat; engagement; contest; struggle; encounter; fray; affray; action; conflict. See Battle.
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