Word Meanings - FIREARM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.

Related words: (words related to FIREARM)

• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• WEAPONRY
  Weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry.
• FORCEPS
  The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies
• WEAPONLESS
  Having no weapon.
• FORCEFUL
  Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden.
• FORCEMENT
  The act of forcing; compulsion. It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery J. Webster.
• SUBSTANCE
  See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real,
• PISTOL
  The smallest firearm used, intended to be fired from one hand, -- now of many patterns, and bearing a great variety of names. See Illust. of Revolver. Pistol carbine, a firearm with a removable but- piece, and thus capable of being used either as
• PISTOLEER
  One who uses a pistol. Carlyle.
• FORCED
  Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh. Forced draught. See under Draught. -- Forced march , a march of one or more
• WEAPON
  A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished. Concealed weapons. See under Concealed. -- Weapon salve, a salve which was supposed to cure a wound by being applied to the weapon that made it. Boyle. (more info) wapen, G. waffe,
• DISCHARGER
  One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.
• DISCHARGE
  1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge
• FORCELESS
  Having little or no force; feeble. These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me. Shak.
• PISTOLADE
  A pistol shot.
• SUBSTANCELESS
  Having no substance; unsubstantial. Coleridge.
• WEAPONED
  Furnished with weapons, or arms; armed; equipped.
• EXPLOSIVE
  Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as, the explosive force of gunpowder.
• GUNPOWDER
  A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting. Note: Gunpowder consists of from 70 to 80 per cent of niter, with 10 to 15 per cent of each
• PISTOLE
  The name of certain gold coins of various values formerly coined in some countries of Europe. In Spain it was equivalent to a quarter doubloon, or about .90, and in Germany and Italy nearly the same. There was an old Italian pistole worth about
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• EPISTOLET
  A little epistle. Lamb.
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT
• EPISTOLAR
  Epistolary. Dr. H. More.
• EPISTOLIZE
  To write epistles.
• REENFORCE
  To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet.
• DEFORCE
  To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. Burrill.
• EPISTOLIC; EPISTOLICAL
  Pertaining to letters or epistles; in the form or style of letters; epistolary.
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.
• EPISTOLIZER
  A writer of epistles.
• OVERFORCE
  Excessive force; violence.
• INEXPLOSIVE
  Not explosive.
• AFFORCE
  To reënforce; to strengthen. Hallam.
• EPISTOLOGRAPHY
  The art or practice of writing epistles.