Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1.
hostile or belligerent mood;
- Example: "the chief is on the warpath today"2.
a course leading to warfare or battle;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Warpath \War"path`\, n.
The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike
expedition. --Schoolcraft.
[1913 Webster]
On the warpath, on a hostile expedition; hence,
colloquially, about to attack a person or measure.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
warpath
n 1: hostile or belligerent mood; "the chief is on the warpath
today"
2: a course leading to warfare or battle
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "warpath":
aggression, aggressiveness, antagonism, bellicism, bellicosity,
belligerence, belligerency, chauvinism, combativeness,
contentiousness, ferocity, fierceness, fight, hostility, jingoism,
martialism, militancy, militarism, pugnaciousness, pugnacity,
quarrelsomeness, saber rattling, truculence, unfriendliness,
unpeacefulness, warmongering