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Word Meanings - SIX-SHOOTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pistol or other firearm which can be fired six times without reloading especially, a six-chambered revolver.

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  • CHAMBERING
    Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
  • 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.
  • OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
    Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
  • CHAMBERER
    1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger.
  • 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.
  • CHAMBERED
    Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
  • 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.
  • TIMESERVING
    Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • FIRMITY
    Strength; firmness; stability. Chillingworth.
  • NOTOTHERIUM
    An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
  • 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
  • BETIME; BETIMES
    1. In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow. 2. In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with. He tires betimes
  • ISOTHEROMBROSE
    A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
  • 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.
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • UNMOTHERED
    Deprived of a mother; motherless.
  • SPITFIRE
    A violent, irascible, or passionate person. Grose.
  • ISOTHERMAL
    Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
  • STAR-CHAMBER
    An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed
  • EEL-MOTHER
    The eelpout.

 

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