Belligerent

1. n. A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare.
2. p. pr. Waging war; carrying on war.
3. p. pr. Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights.

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.