Word Meanings - CHASSEPOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun.
Related words: (words related to CHASSEPOT)
- IMPROVISATRICE
See IMPROVVISATRICE - NEEDLESS
1. Having no need. Weeping into the needless stream. Shak. 2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses. 3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless. "Needless jealousy." Shak. -- Need"less*ly, - NEEDLESTONE
Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite. - IMPROVER
One who, or that which, improves. - IMPROVABILITY
The state or quality of being improvable; improvableness. - NEEDLEWOMAN
A woman who does needlework; a seamstress. - IMPROVIDENTLY
In a improvident manner. "Improvidently rash." Drayton. - IMPROVISION
Improvidence. Sir T. Browne. - CENTERING
See 6 - IMPROVIDED
Unforeseen; unexpected; not provided against; unprepared. All improvided for dread of death. E. Hall. - IMPROVISER
One who improvises. - IMPROVISATIZE
See IMPROVISATE - CENTERBIT; CENTREBIT
An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3. - IMPROVISATOR
An improviser, or improvvisatore. - CENTERBOARD; CENTREBOARD
A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel - NEEDLE
One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus. 5. Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc. Dipping needle. See under Dipping. -- Needle bar, the reciprocating - IMPROVABLE
1. Capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities. Man is accommodated with moral principles, improvable by the exercise of his faculties. Sir - IMPROVVISATRICE
A female improvvisatore. - IMPROVISATE
Unpremeditated; impromptu; extempore. - NEEDLER
One who makes or uses needles; also, a dealer in needles. Piers Plowman. - CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge. - TRIFLE
trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong - SELF-CENTERING; SELF-CENTRING
Centering in one's self. - UNIMPROVED
1. Not improved; not made better or wiser; not advanced in knowledge, manners, or excellence. 2. Not used; not employed; especially, not used or employed for a valuable purpose; as, unimproved opportunities; unimproved blessings. Cowper. 3. Not - SELF-CENTERED; SELF-CENTRED
Centered in itself, or in one's self. There hangs the ball of earth and water mixt, Self-centered and unmoved. Dryden. - TRIFLER
One who trifles. Waterland.