Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See sciamachy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A fighting with a shadow; a mock contest; an imaginary or futile combat.

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  • noun battling an imaginary enemy

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  • fighting with a shadow

    January 20, 2009