Word Meanings - CANNONED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Furnished with cannon. "Gilbralter's cannoned steep." M. Arnold.
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- FURNISHMENT
The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel. - CANNON BONE
See BONE - STEEP
Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer. - STEEPLE
A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles - STEEPLY
In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity. - STEEP-DOWN
Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak. - CANNONADE
1. The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle - CANNONEER; CANNONIER
A man who manages, or fires, cannon. - CANNONED
Furnished with cannon. "Gilbralter's cannoned steep." M. Arnold. - STEEPLE-CROWNED
1. Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building. 2. Having a crown shaped like a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned hat; also, wearing a hat with such a crown. This grave, beared, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor. Hawthorne. - STEEPEN
To become steep or steeper. As the way steepened . . . I could detect in the hollow of the hill some traces of the old path. H. Miller. - FURNISH
Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to - STEEPER
A vessel, vat, or cistern, in which things are steeped. - FURNISHER
One who supplies or fits out. - STEEPNESS
1. Quality or state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as, the steepnessof a hill or a roof. 2. Height; loftiness. Chapman. - STEEPINESS
Steepness. Howell. - STEEPY
Steep; precipitous. No more, my goats, shall I belong you climb The steepy cliffs, or crop the flow'ry thyme. Dryden. - CANNONERING
The use of cannon. Burke. - CANNONRY
Cannon, collectively; artillery. The ringing of bells and roaring of cannonry proclaimed his course through the country. W. Irving. - CANNON
A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently. (more info) 1. A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force. Note: Cannons are made - DISFURNISH
To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger. - DEMICANNON
A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds. Shak. - CANONIC; CANNONICAL
Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons. "The oath of canonical obedience." Hallam. Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of - REFURNISHMENT
The act of refurnishing, or state of being refurnished. The refurnishment was in a style richer than before. L. Wallace. - UNFURNISH
To strip of furniture; to divest; to strip.