wield the sword, shoulder a musket, smell powder, be under fire; spill blood, imbrue the hands in blood; on the warpath.
     carry on war, carry on hostilities; keep the field; fight the good
fight; fight it out, fight like devils, fight one’s way, fight hand to hand; sell one’s life dearly; pay the ferryman’s fee. 
     Adj. contending, contentious &c. 720; armed, armed to the teeth, armed
cap-a-pie; sword in hand; in arms, under arms, up in arms; at war with; bristling with arms; in battle array, in open arms, in the field; embattled; battled.
     unpacific[obs3], unpeaceful[obs3]; belligerent, combative,
armigerous[obs3], bellicose, martial, warlike; military, militant; soldier-like, soldierly.
     chivalrous; strategical, internecine. 
     Adv. flagrante bello[Lat], in the thick of the fray, in the cannon’s
mouth; at the sword’s point, at the point of the bayonet. 
     Int. vae victis[Lat]! to arms! to your tents O Israel! 
     Phr. the battle rages; a la guerre comme a la guerre[Fr]; bis peccare
in bello non licet[Lat][obs3]; jus gladii[Lat]; “my voice is still for war” [Addison]; “’tis well that war is so terrible, otherwise we might grow fond of it” [Robert E. Lee]; “my sentence is for open war” [Milton]; “pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war” [Othello]; “the cannons have their bowels full of wrath” [King John]; “the cannons . . .spit forth their iron indignation” [King John]; “the fire-eyed maid of smoky war” [Henry IV]; silent leges inter arma [Lat][Cicero]; si vis pacem para bellum[Lat].

     #723.  Pacification. —­ N. pacification, conciliation; reconciliation,
reconcilement; shaking of hands, accommodation, arrangement, adjustment; terms, compromise; amnesty, deed of release.
     peace offering; olive branch; calumet of peace, preliminaries of
peace.
     truce, armistice; suspension of arms, suspension of hostilities,
stand-down; breathing time; convention; modus vivendi[Lat]; flag of truce, white flag, parlementaire[Fr], cartel|!.
     hollow truce, pax in bello[Lat]; drawn battle. 
     V. pacify, tranquilize, compose; allay &c. (moderate) 174; reconcile,
propitiate, placate, conciliate, meet halfway, hold out the olive branch, heal the breach, make peace, restore harmony, bring to terms.
     settle matters, arrange matters, accommodate matters, accommodate
differences; set straight; make up a quarrel, tantas componere lites[Lat]; come to an understanding, come to terms; bridge over, hush up; make it, make matters up; shake hands; mend one’s fences [U.S.].
     raise a siege, lift a siege; put up the sword, sheathe the sword; bury
the hatchet, lay down one’s arms, turn swords into plowshares; smoke the calumet of peace, close the temple of Janus; keep the peace &c. (concord) 714; be pacified &c.; come round. 
     Adj. conciliatory; composing &c.v.; pacified &c.v. 
     Phr. requiescat in pace[Lat].