weapon : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: weapon	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for weapon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
weapon n any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting; "he was licensed to carry a weapon" Synonym(s): weapon, arm, weapon system a means of persuading or arguing; "he used all his conversational weapons" Synonym(s): weapon, artillery
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Weapon \Weap"on\ (?; 277), n. [OE. wepen, AS. w[?]pen; akin to OS. w[?]pan, OFries. w[?]pin, w[?]pen, D. wapen, G. waffe, OHG. waffan, w[be]fan, Icel. v[be]pn, Dan. vaaben, Sw. vapen, Goth. w[?]pna, pl.; of uncertain origin. Cf. {Wapentake}.] 1. An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. --2 Cor. x. 4. They, astonished, all resistance lost, All courage; down their idle weapons dropped. --Milton. 2. Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon. [bd]Woman's weapons, water drops.[b8] --Shak. 3. (Bot.) A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished. {Concealed weapons}. See under {Concealed}. {Weapon salve}, a salve which was supposed to cure a wound by being applied to the weapon that made it. [Obs.] --Boyle.