Word Meanings - CANNELURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A groove in any cylinder; specif., a groove around the cylinder of an elongated bullet for small arms to contain a lubricant, or around the rotating band of a gun projectile to lessen the resistance offered to the rifling. Also, a groove around

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A groove in any cylinder; specif., a groove around the cylinder of an elongated bullet for small arms to contain a lubricant, or around the rotating band of a gun projectile to lessen the resistance offered to the rifling. Also, a groove around the base of a cartridge, where the extractor takes hold. --Can"ne*lured , a.

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• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• OFFER
  ferre to bear, bring. The English word was influenced by F. offrir to 1. To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for
• OFFERER
  One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship. Hooker.
• ROTATOR
  that which gives a rotary or rolling motion, as a muscle which partially rotates or turns some part on its axis.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• LESSENER
  One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers .
• BULLET-PROOF
  Capable of resisting the force of a bullet. Bullet tree. See Bully tree. -- Bullet wood, the wood of the bullet tree.
• ROTATION
  1. The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion
• OFFERTURE
  Offer; proposal; overture. More offertures and advantages to his crown. Milton.
• AROUND
  1. In a circle; circularly; on every side; round. 2. In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town. 3. Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took
• SPECIFY
  To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased. He has there given us an exact geography of Greece, where the countries and
• OFFERTORY
  1. The act of offering, or the thing offered. Bacon. Bp. Fell. An anthem chanted, or a voluntary played on the organ, during the offering and first part of the Mass. That part of the Mass which the priest reads before uncovering the chalice to
• LUBRICANT
  Lubricating.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• CYLINDER
  A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular. The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface.
• BULLETIN
  bulletta, dim. of bulla, bolla, an edict of the pope, from L. bulla 1. A brief statement of facts respecting some passing event, as military operations or the health of some distinguished personage, issued by authority for the information of the
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• CIRCUMROTARY; CIRCUMROTATORY
  turning, rolling, or whirling round.
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• 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
• LAEVOROTATORY
  See DEXTROROTATORY
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• DUMDUM BULLET
  A kind of manstopping bullet; -- so named from Dumdum, in India, where bullets are manufactured for the Indian army.
• AEGROTAT
  A medical certificate that a student is ill.
• CONSPECIFIC
  Of the same species.
• LEVOROTATION
  Rotation in the direction of an outgoing right-handed screw; counter-clockwise rotation; -- applied chiefly to the turning of the plane of polarization of light.
• PROFFER
  forth or forward, to offer; pro forward + ferre to bring. See Bear to 1. To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship. Shak. I reck not what wrong that thou