1. A political party that favors war.
1798. T. Jefferson, Lett. to J. Madison, 26 April. Writ. 1854, IV. 237. Parker has completely gone over to the war party.
1835. T. Mitchell, Acharn. of Aristoph., 510, note. Why Lamachus is thus selected as the representative of the war-party in Athens is pretty evident.
1849. C. Brontë, Shirley, lii. Moore was a bitter Whig—a Whig, at least, as far as opposition to the war-party was concerned.
2. A body of Indian ‘braves’ banded together for war.
1826. J. F. Cooper, Last of Mohicans, xiii. The brothers and family of the Mohican formed our war-party.
1837. R. M. Bird, Nick of the Woods, III. 108. There is a war-party of fourteen painted Wyandotts sleeping on the Council-square.
1876. Bancroft, Hist. U.S., IV. xv. 421. The backwoodsmen, who were hunters like the Indians,… were forming war-parties along the frontier.
