Word Meanings - DEMICANNON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds. Shak.

Related words: (words related to DEMICANNON)

• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• WEIGHMASTER
  One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.
• CARRYK
  A carack. Chaucer.
• WEIGHER
  One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities.
• ORDNANCE
  Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons and appliances used in war. All the battlements their ordnance fire. Shak. Then you may hear afar off the awful roar of
• THIRTY
  Being three times ten; consisting of one more than twenty-nine; twenty and ten; as, the month of June consists of thirty days. (more info) dertig, G. dreissig, Icel. Þrjatiu, Þrjatigi, Þrir teger, Goth. Þreis
• WEIGH-HOUSE
  A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed.
• WEIGHT
  The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it. Atomic weight. See under Atomic, and cf. Element. -- Dead weight, Feather weight, Heavy weight, Light weight, etc. See under Dead, Feather, etc. -- Weight of
• WEIGHTY
  1. Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body. 2. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous. "For sundry weighty reasons." Shak. Let me have your advice in a weighty affair. Swift.
• WEIGHBOARD
  Clay intersecting a vein. Weale.
• CARRYALL
  A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.
• THIRTY-SECOND
  Being one of thirty-two equal parts into which anything is divided. Thirty-second note , the thirty-second part of a whole note; a demi-semiquaver.
• WEIGHABLE
  Capable of being weighed.
• WEIGHBRIDGE
  A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be weighed; platform scales.
• WEIGH
  A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh. An expedition was got under weigh from New York. Thackeray. The Athenians . . . hurried on board and with considerable difficulty got under weigh. Jowett .
• WEIGHTLESS
  Having no weight; imponderable; hence, light. Shak.
• WEIGHLOCK
  A lock, as on a canal, in which boats are weighed and their tonnage is settled.
• CARRYTALE
  A talebearer. Shak.
• WEIGHING
  a. & n. from Weigh, v. Weighing cage, a cage in which small living animals may be conveniently weighed. -- Weighing house. See Weigh-house. -- Weighing machine, any large machine or apparatus for weighing; especially, platform scales arranged for
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• WELTERWEIGHT
  1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
• SCARRY
  Bearing scars or marks of wounds.
• AWEIGH
  Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor. Totten.
• UNWEIGHING
  Not weighing or pondering; inconsiderate. Shak.
• MISCARRY
  1. To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat. My ships have all miscarried. Shak. The cardinal's letters to the pope miscarried. Shak. 2. To bring forth young
• OVERCARRY
  To carry too far; to carry beyond the proper point. Hayward.
• MAKEWEIGHT
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• LIGHTWEIGHT
  In boxing, wrestling, etc., one weighingnot more than 133 pounds