Definition of "warres" []

• Plural form of warre. (noun)

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• "Prince of Conde, cited in Jean de Serres, The three partes of commentaries containing the whole and perfect discourse of the ciuill warres of Fraunce, trans. from Latin by Thomas Timme London: Frances Coldocke, 1574, Fourth Book, 119, access via Early English Books On-Line."
• "Corke, or Youghall, (for all other Cities and Sea townes are possessed by the enemy), or else my two sonnes [must] travaile into Holland, and putt themselves into entertaynement under the service and conduct of the Prince of Orange; for they must henceforward maintayne themselves by such entertaynements as they gett in the warres (Earl of Cork to Marcombes 9 March 1641/2, Maddison 1969, 47)."
• "As Roger Williams had reported, "the naming of their dead Sachims, is one ground of their warres"; in 1665 Philip himself had traveled to Nantucket to kill an Indian who had spoken the name of his deceased father, Massasoit."