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.
Related words: (words related to SIX-SHOOTER)
- 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.