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An ant, or emmet.

A pearmain. [Obs.]

A case of strong paper filled with a composition of niter, sulphur, and mealed powder, -- used principally to ignite the priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells.

The penalty ascribed for the offense of præmunire. Wolsey incurred a præmunire, and forfeited his honor, estate, and life. South.

See Præmunire.

To require beforehand. Some things are prerequired of us. Bp. Hall.

Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station, where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points.

One of the common people; a low person; also, the common people as a class or estate in a country.

A galley with four banks of oars or rowers.

Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet. "A spot surrounded by quagmires, which rendered it difficult of access." Palfrey.

See Quagmire. [Obs.]

= Questionary, above.

See Choir. [Obs.] Spenser. A quire of such enticing birds. Shak.

A rampart. [Archaic] The Trojans round the place a rampire cast. Dryden.

A mount permitting easy and quick elevation or depression and training of the gun, and fitting with a device for taking up the recoil.

br. B. L.), applied to all guns loading with the charge in bags, and formerly from quick-fire. Rapid-fire guns in the navy also sometimes include automatic or semiautomatic rapid-fire guns; the former being automatic guns of not less than one inch caliber, firing a shell of not less than one pound weight, the explosion…

Applied to the examination of a witness, by the party calling him, after the cross-examination.

To hire again.

To inspire anew. Milton.

One who, or that which, repairs, restores, or makes amends.