Battle

1. v. t. The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia.
2. a. Fertile. See Battel, a.
3. v. t. A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
4. v. t. A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.
5. v. t. A division of an army; a battalion.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.