comhrac, m. (gs. & npl. -aic1, gpl. ~). 1. vn. of comhraic2. 2. Encounter. (a) Fight. Dul i g~, chun comhraic, le duine, to encounter, fight, s.o. ~ a chur ar dhuine, to challenge s.o. to fight. ~ aonair, duel. Fear comhraic céad, ‘hundred-fighter’; leader of one hundred men. Coileach comhraic, fighting-cock. ~ coileach, cock-fight; (of persons) spar. ~ gadhar, dog-fight. ~ mara, sea-fight. Thit sé sa chomhrac, he fell in the fray. Cluichí comhraic, combat sports. Prov:An té nach nglacann comhairle glacfaidh sé ~, he who will not yield to reason will yield to compulsion. S.a. céile 1, post31. (b) Meeting. ~ an dá uisce, the confluence of two streams. ~ an dá ráithe, the change of season. ~ oíche agus lae, twilight. Ag ~ na mbóithre, where the roads meet.