Word Meanings - NUMBFISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The torpedo, which numbs by the electric shocks which it gives.

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• TORPEDO
  Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical.
• TORPEDO STATION
  A headquarters for torpedo vessels and their supplies, usually having facilities for repairs and for instruction and experiments. The principal torpedo station of the United States is at Newport,
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• ELECTRICIAN
  An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
• TORPEDOIST
  One skilled in the theory or use of torpedoes; also, one who favors the use of torpedoes.
• TORPEDO CATCHER
  A small fast vessel for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats.
• TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
  A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• ELECTRIC
  A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• TORPEDO BOOM
  A spar formerly carried by men-of-war, having a torpedo on its end.
• ELECTRICITY
  1. A power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, the fact of direction in which involves polarity, or opposition of properties in opposite directions; also, by
• TORPEDO BODY
  An automobile body which is built so that the side surfaces are flush.
• TORPEDO TUBE
  A tube fixed below or near the water line through which a torpedo is fired, usually by a small charge of gunpowder. On torpedo vessels the tubes are on deck and usually in broadside, on larger vessels usually submerged in broadside and fitted with
• TORPEDO SHELL
  A shell longer than a deck-piercing shell, with thinner walls and a larger cavity for the bursting charge, which consists of about 130 pounds of high explosive. It has no soft cap, and is intended to effect its damage by the powerful explosion which
• TORPEDO STERN
  A broad stern without overhang, flattened on the bottom, used in some torpedo and fast power boats. It prevents settling in the water at high speed.
• ELECTRICALNESS
  The state or quality of being electrical.
• ELECTRIC; ELECTRICAL
  metal, Gr. arc to beam, shine: cf. F. électrique. The name came from 1. Pertaining to electricity; consisting of, containing, derived from, or produced by, electricity; as, electric power or virtue; an electric jar; electric effects; an electric
• ELECTRICALLY
  In the manner of electricity, or by means of it; thrillingly.
• ANELECTRIC
  Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.
• PYROELECTRICITY
  Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.
• IDIOELECTRIC
  Electric by virtue of its own peculiar properties; capable of becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to anelectric. -- n.
• DYNAMO-ELECTRIC
  Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power.
• THERMOELECTRIC COUPLE; THERMOELECTRIC PAIR
  A union of two conductors, as bars or wires of dissimilar metals joined at their extremities, for producing a thermoelectric current.
• PHOTO-ELECTRICITY
  Electricity produced by light.
• HYDRO-ELECTRIC
  Pertaining to, employed in, or produced by, the evolution of electricity by means of a battery in which water or steam is used. Hydro-electric machine , an apparatus invented by Sir William Armstrong of England for generating electricity by the
• THERMOELECTRICITY
  Electricity developed in the action of heat. See the Note under Electricity.
• RESINO-ELECTRIC
  Containing or exhibiting resinous electricity.