Fighting \Fight"ing\, a.
1. Qualified for war; fit for battle.
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An host of fighting men. --2 Chron.
xxvi. 11.
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2. Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a
fighting field. --Pope.
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{A fighting chance}, one dependent upon the issue of a
struggle. [Colloq.]
{Fighting crab} (Zool.), the fiddler crab.
{Fighting fish} (Zool.), a remarkably pugnacious East Indian
fish ({Betta pugnax}), reared by the Siamese for
spectacular fish fights.
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