N. arrangement, plan, preparation, disposal, disposition, collocation, allocation, distribution, sorting, assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization, grouping, tabulation, analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion, digest, synopsis, syntagma, table, atlas, file, database, register, organism, architecture, sieve, riddle, screen, sorter

V. reduce to order, bring into order, introduce order into, rally, arrange, dispose, place, form, put in order, set in order, place in order, set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out, allot, distribute, deal, cast the parts, assign the parts, dispose of, assign places to, assort, sort, sift, riddle, put to rights, set to rights, put into shape, put in trim, put in array, apportion, class, classify, divide, file, string together, thread, register, catalogue, tabulate, index, graduate, digest, grade, methodize, regulate, systematize, coordinate, organize, settle, fix, unravel, disentangle, ravel, card, disembroil, feaze

Adj. arranged, embattled, in battle array, cut and dried, methodical, orderly, regular, systematic

Phr. "in vast cumbrous array"

N. party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band, horde, posse, phalanx, family, clan, &c. 166, team, tong, council, community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity, confraternity, familistere, familistery, brotherhood, sisterhood, knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd, coterie, club, casino|, machine, tammany, tammany hall, corporation, corporate body, guild, establishment, company, copartnership, partnership, firm, house, joint concern, joint-stock company, cahoot, combine, trust, society, association, institute, institution, union, trades union, league, syndicate, alliance, verein, bund, zollverein, combination, turnverein, league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive, coalition, federation, confederation, confederacy, junto, cabal, camarilla, camorra, brigue|, freemasonry, party spirit, confederates, conservatives, democrats, federalists, federals, freemason, knight templar, kuklux, kuklux klan, kkk, liberals, luddites, republicans, socialists, tories, whigs &c. staff, dramatis personae

V. unite, join, club together, cement a party, form a party, associate, enleague, federalize, go cahoots

Adj. in league, in partnership, in alliance, bonded together, banded together, linked - together, embattled, confederated, federative, joint

Adv. hand in hand, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, en masse, in the same boat

N. warfare, fighting, hostilities, war, arms, the sword, mars, bellona, grim visaged war, horrida bella, bloodshed, appeal to arms, appeal to the sword, ordeal of battle, wager of battle, ultima ratio regum, arbitrament of the sword, battle array, campaign, crusade, expedition, operations, mobilization, state of siege, battlefield, theater of operations, warpath, art of war, tactics, strategy, castrametation, generalship, soldiership, logistics, military evolutions, ballistics, gunnery, chivalry, gunpowder, shot, battle, tug of war, service, campaigning, active service, tented field, kriegspiel, kriegsspiel, fire cross, trumpet, clarion, bugle, pibroch, slogan, war-cry, war-whoop, battle cry, beat of drum, rappel, tom-tom, calumet of war, word of command, password, watchword, passage d-armes, war to the death, war to the knife, guerre a mort, guerre a outrance, open war, internecine war, civil war

V. arm, raise troops, mobilize troops, raise up in arms, take up the cudgels, take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword, draw the sword, unsheathe the sword, dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk, go to war, wage war, 'let slip the dogs of war', cry havoc, kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war, raise one's banner, raise the fire cross, hoist the black flag, throw away, fling away the scabbard, enroll, enlist, take the field, take the law into one's own hands, do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle, flesh one's sword, set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords, come to blows, come to close quarters, fight, combat, contend, battle with, break a lance with, raise the jolly roger, run up the jolly roger, serve, see service, be on service, be on active service, campaign, wield the sword, shoulder a musket, smell powder, be under fire, spill blood, imbrue the hands in blood, on the warpath, carry on war, carry on hostilities, keep the field, fight the good fight, fight it out, fight like devils, fight one's way, fight hand to hand, sell one's life dearly, pay the ferryman's fee

Adj. contending, contentious, armed, armed to the teeth, armed cap-a-pie, sword in hand, in arms, under arms, up in arms, at war with, bristling with arms, in battle array, in open arms, in the field, embattled, battled, unpacific, unpeaceful, belligerent, combative, armigerous, bellicose, martial, warlike, military, militant, soldier- like, soldierly, chivalrous, strategical, internecine

Adv. flagrante bello, in the thick of the fray, in the cannon's mouth, at the sword's point, at the point of the bayonet

Int. vae victis, to arms, to your tents o israel, phr, the battle rages, a la guerre comme a la guerre, bis peccare in bello non licet, jus gladii, "my voice is still for war", "'tis well that war is so terrible, otherwise we might grow fond of it", "my sentence is for open war", "pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war", "the cannons have their bowels full of wrath", "the cannons . . .spit forth their iron indignation", "the fire-eyed maid of smoky war", silent leges inter arma, si vis pacem para bellum