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n.
A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy.
n.
A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.
n.
A dispute or contest; a slight contest; a skirmish.
n.
A slight contest; a skirmish. See Skirmish.
n.
One who skirmishes.
v. t.
To move rapidly; to wheel or rush suddenly or with violence; to whirl round rapidly; to skirmish.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Skirmish
n.
Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle.
imp. & p. p.
of Skirmish
v. i.
To meet unexpectedly; to encounter in a hostile manner; to come in collision; to skirmish.
v. i.
A slight fight in war; a light or desultory combat between detachments from armies, or between detached and small bodies of troops.
n.
A skirmishing.
n.
One who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body.
n.
Soldiers deployed in loose order, to cover the front or flanks of an advancing army or a marching column.
v. i.
To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon.
n.
One of a kind of light cavalry of Tartaric origin, first introduced into European armies in Poland. They are armed with lances, pistols, and sabers, and are employed chiefly as skirmishers.
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Formerly, a member of an independent body of marksmen in the French army. They were used sometimes in front of the army to annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers.
v. i.
A slight contest.
n.
A skirmish; an encounter.
v. i.
To fight slightly or in small parties; to engage in a skirmish or skirmishes; to act as skirmishers.
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