Word Meanings - FLINTLOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on stricking the steel ignites the priming. 2. A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.
Related words: (words related to FLINTLOCK)
- STEELING
The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v. - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - PRIMORDIALLY
At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally. - HAMMER LOCK
A hold in which an arm of one contestant is held twisted and bent behind his back by his opponent. - STEELHEAD
A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - PRIMO
First; chief. - FIREARM
A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder. - STEELINESS
The quality of being steely. - PRIMOGENITURESHIP
The state or privileges of the firstborn. Burke. - OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley. - PRIMITIVENESS
The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice. - PRIMEVALLY
In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally. Darwin. - FLINTWOOD
An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis. - PRIMOGENITOR
The first ancestor; a forefather. - FASHION-MONGERING
Behaving like a fashion-monger. Shak. - FASHIONED
Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned. - FASHION-MONGER
One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston. - PRIMOGENIAL
First born, made, or generated; original; primary; elemental; as, primogenial light. Glanvill. - HAMMERER
One who works with a hammer. - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - CARBON STEEL
Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel. - UNSTEEL
To disarm; to soften. Richardson. - REFIX
To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller. - ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n. - SMOTHER
Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick - AFFIX
figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to - ISOTHEROMBROSE
A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall. - EPISTOLET
A little epistle. Lamb. - DEFIX
To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt. - LOW STEEL
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