enemy
    n 1: an opposing military force; "the enemy attacked at dawn"
    2: an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing
       military force); "a soldier must be prepared to kill his
       enemies" [syn: enemy, foe, foeman, opposition]
    3: any hostile group of people; "he viewed lawyers as the real
       enemy"
    4: a personal enemy; "they had been political foes for years"
       [syn: foe, enemy] [ant: ally, friend]

Enemy \En"e*my\, n.; pl. Enemies. [OF. enemi, F. ennemi, from
   L. inimicus; in- (negative) + amicus friend. See Amicable.]
   One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or
   attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an
   enemy of or to a person; an enemy to truth, or to falsehood.
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         To all good he enemy was still.          --Spenser.
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         I say unto you, Love your enemies.       --Matt. v. 44.
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   The enemy (Mil.), the hostile force. In this sense it is
      construed with the verb and pronoun either in the singular
      or the plural, but more commonly in the singular; as, we
      have met the enemy and he is ours or they are ours.
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            It was difficult in such a country to track the
            enemy. It was impossible to drive him to bay.
                                                  --Macaulay.

   Syn: Foe; antagonist; opponent. See Adversary.
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Enemy \En"e*my\, a.
   Hostile; inimical. [Obs.]
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         They . . . every day grow more enemy to God. --Jer.
                                                  Taylor.
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ENEMY, international law. By this term is understood the whole body of a 
nation at war with another. It also signifies a citizen or subject of such a 
nation, as when we say an alien enemy. In a still more extended sense, the 
word includes any of the subjects or citizens of a state in amity with the 
United States, who, have commenced, or have made preparations for commencing 
hostilities against the United States; and also the citizens or subjects of 
a state in amity with the United States, who are in the service of a state 
at war with them. Salk. 635; Bac. Ab. Treason, G. 
     2. An enemy cannot, as a general rule, enter into any contract which 
can be enforced in the courts of law; but the rule is not without 
exceptions; as, for example, when a state permits expressly its own citizens 
to trade with the enemy; and perhaps a contract for necessaries, or for 
money to enable the individual to get home, might be enforced. 7 Pet. R. 
586. 
     3. An alien enemy cannot, in general, sue during the war, a citizen of 
the United States, either in the courts of, the United States, or those of 
the several states. 1 Kent, Com. 68; 15 John. R. 57 S. C. 16 John. R. 438. 
Vide Marsh. Ins. c. 2, s. 1; Park. Ins. Index. h.t.; Wesk. Ins. 197; Phil. 
Ins. Index. h.t.; Chit. Comm. Law, Index, h.t.; Chit. Law of Nations, 
Index, h.t. 
     4. By the term enemy is also understood, a person who is desirous of 
doing injury to another. The Latins had two terms to signify these two 
classes of persons; the first, or the public enemy, they called hostis, and 
the latter, or the private enemy, inimicus.