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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To quarrel noisily or angrily; bicker. See Synonyms at argue.
2. v. To win or obtain by argument.
3. v. To herd (horses or other livestock).
4. n. The act of wrangling.
5. n. An angry, noisy argument or dispute.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To dispute; argue noisily or in a quarrelsome manner; brawl; altercate.
2. To engage in discussion and disputation; argue, debate; hence, formerly, in some universities, to dispute publicly; defend or oppose a thesis by argument.
3. Synonyms To bicker, spar, jangle. See quarrel, n.
4. To contest or dispute, especially in the usually brawling manner of the schools.
5. n. An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel.
6. n. Synonyms Squabble, Altercation, etc. (see quarrel), controversy.

Wiktionary

1. v. intransitive to bicker, or quarrel angrily and noisily
2. v. transitive to herd horses or other livestock
3. n. An act of wrangling
4. n. An angry dispute

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. obsolete To argue; to debate; to dispute.
2. v. To dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to brawl; to altercate.
3. v. rare To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil.
4. n. An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively
2. v. herd and care for
3. n. an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
4. n. an angry dispute