Word Meanings - CHASSEPOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun.

Related words: (words related to CHASSEPOT)

• IMPROVISATRICE
  See IMPROVVISATRICE
• NEEDLESS
  1. Having no need. Weeping into the needless stream. Shak. 2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses. 3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless. "Needless jealousy." Shak. -- Need"less*ly,
• NEEDLESTONE
  Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite.
• IMPROVER
  One who, or that which, improves.
• IMPROVABILITY
  The state or quality of being improvable; improvableness.
• NEEDLEWOMAN
  A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
• IMPROVIDENTLY
  In a improvident manner. "Improvidently rash." Drayton.
• CENTERING
  See 6
• IMPROVISION
  Improvidence. Sir T. Browne.
• IMPROVIDED
  Unforeseen; unexpected; not provided against; unprepared. All improvided for dread of death. E. Hall.
• IMPROVISER
  One who improvises.
• IMPROVISATIZE
  See IMPROVISATE
• CENTERBIT; CENTREBIT
  An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3.
• IMPROVISATOR
  An improviser, or improvvisatore.
• CENTERBOARD; CENTREBOARD
  A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel
• NEEDLE
  One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus. 5. Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc. Dipping needle. See under Dipping. -- Needle bar, the reciprocating
• IMPROVABLE
  1. Capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities. Man is accommodated with moral principles, improvable by the exercise of his faculties. Sir
• IMPROVVISATRICE
  A female improvvisatore.
• IMPROVISATE
  Unpremeditated; impromptu; extempore.
• NEEDLER
  One who makes or uses needles; also, a dealer in needles. Piers Plowman.
• CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
  To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.
• 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
• SELF-CENTERING; SELF-CENTRING
  Centering in one's self.
• UNIMPROVED
  1. Not improved; not made better or wiser; not advanced in knowledge, manners, or excellence. 2. Not used; not employed; especially, not used or employed for a valuable purpose; as, unimproved opportunities; unimproved blessings. Cowper. 3. Not
• SELF-CENTERED; SELF-CENTRED
  Centered in itself, or in one's self. There hangs the ball of earth and water mixt, Self-centered and unmoved. Dryden.
• TRIFLER
  One who trifles. Waterland.