Assailant - Law Dictionary Search Results
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assailant : a person who commits criminal assault ...
Insect-infested
Insect-infested, the expression 'insect-infested' was not defined in the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act and has, therefore, to be given its ordinary meaning. The word 'infest' appears to have been derived from the latin word 'infestate' which meant 'to assail or molest'. According to the Oxford English Dictionary (Volume V at page 259) the word 'infest' means 'To attack assail, annoy or trouble (a person or thing) in a persistent manner', 'to visit persistently or in large number for purposes of destruction or plunder', 'to swarm in or about, so as to be troublesome'. In the same dictionary the word 'infestation' is stated to mean: 'The action of infesting, assailing, harassing, or molesting'. It is also mentioned that the word is now used especially for 'insects which attack plants, grain, etc. in large swarms'. Thus an article of food would be 'insect-infested', if it has been attacked by insects in swarms or numbers, Municipal Corporation of Delhi v. Kacheroo Mal, AIR 1976 SC 3...
armed
armed 1 : having a weapon [an assailant] 2 : involving the use of a weapon [an attack] ...
assault
assault [Old French assaut, literally, attack, ultimately from Latin assultus, from assilire to leap (on), attack] 1 : the crime or tort of threatening or attempting to inflict immediate offensive physical contact or bodily harm that one has the present ability to inflict and that puts the victim in fear of such harm or contact compare battery 2 : the crime of assault accompanied by battery ;specif : sexual assault in this entry called also assault and battery aggravated assault : a criminal assault accompanied by aggravating factors: as a : a criminal assault that is committed with an intent to cause or that causes serious bodily injury esp. through the use of a dangerous weapon b : a criminal assault accompanied by the intent to commit or the commission of a felony (as rape) compare simple assault in this entry assault with intent : a criminal assault committed with the intent to commit another specified crime [assault with intent to rob] [assault with intent to kill] civ...
Bepommel
To pommel to beat as with a stick figuratively to assail or criticise in conversation or in writing...
Flanker
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...
Impugn
To attack by words or arguments to contradict to assail to call in question to make insinuations against to gainsay to oppose as to impugn a persons integrity...
Invader
One who invades an assailant an encroacher an intruder...
Knock down
To strike down to fell to prostrate by a blow or by blows as to knock down an assailant...
maligned
Assailed with contemptuous language...
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