Word Meanings - SEVEN-SHOOTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A firearm, esp. a pistol, with seven barrels or chambers for cartridges, or one capable of firing seven shots without reloading.

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• FIREFLY
  Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyridæ. Note: The common American species belong to the genera Photinus and Photuris, in which both sexes are winged. The name is also applied to luminous species of Elateridæ.
• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• FIREARM
  A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.
• SEVENNIGHT
  A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See Sennight.
• FIREDRAKE
  1. A fiery dragon. Beau. & Fl. 2. A fiery meteor; an ignis fatuus; a rocket. 3. A worker at a furnace or fire. B. Jonson.
• FIRMAN
  In Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign; a royal order or grant; -- generally given for special objects, as to a traveler to insure him protection and assistance.
• FIRE-FANGED
  Injured as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition.
• FIREWORM
  The larva of a small tortricid moth which eats the leaves of the cranberry, so that the vines look as if burned; -- called also cranberry worm.
• RELOAD
  To load again, as a gun.
• FIRMLESS
  1. Detached from substance. Does passion still the firmless mind control Pope. 2. Infirm; unstable. "Firmless sands." Sylvester.
• FIREBRAND
  1. A piece of burning wood. L'Estrange. 2. One who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary. Bacon.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• FIREBARE
  A beacon. Burrill.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• SEVENFOLD
  Repeated seven times; having seven thicknesses; increased to seven times the size or amount. "Sevenfold rage." Milton.
• FIRMITY
  Strength; firmness; stability. Chillingworth.
• FIREWORK
  A pyrotechnic exhibition. Night before last, the Duke of Richmond gave a firework. Walpole. (more info) 1. A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that
• FIR
  A genus of coniferous trees, often of large size and elegant shape, some of them valued for their timber and others for their resin. The species are distinguished as the balsam fir, the silver fir, the red fir, etc. The Scoth fir is a Pinus. Note:
• SEVENTIETH
  1. Next in order after the sixty-ninth; as, a man in the seventieth year of his age. 2. Constituting or being one of seventy equal parts.
• FIRST-CLASS
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended
• UNCAPABLE
  Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke.
• INCAPABLE
  Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
• EPISTOLET
  A little epistle. Lamb.
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• UNFIRM
  Infirm. Dryden.
• SPITFIRE
  A violent, irascible, or passionate person. Grose.
• EPISTOLAR
  Epistolary. Dr. H. More.
• ZULU-KAFFIR
  A member of the Bantu race comprising the Zulus and the Kaffirs.
• ENFIRE
  To set on fire. Spenser.
• EPISTOLIZE
  To write epistles.
• BALEFIRE
  A signal fire; an alarm fire. Sweet Teviot! on thy silver tide The glaring balefires blaze no more. Sir W. Scott. (more info) Icel. bal, OSlav. b, white, Gr. bright, white, Skr. bhala brightness)
• OVERCAPABLE
  Too capable. Overcapable of such pleasing errors. Hooker.