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ighing usually a little more than 128 grains, and bearing on one side of the figure of an archer.

o discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact. The discoverers and searchers of the land. Sir W. Raleigh.

and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery. A valiant and most expert gentleman. Shak. What practice, howsoe'er expert In fitting aptest words to things . . . Hath power to give thee as thou wert Tennison.

One who explores; one who examines closely; a searcher.

tened, when acted upon by forces applied in a direction transverse to the rope, as in the archer's bow. -- Funicular curve. Same as Catenary. -- Funicular machine (Mech.), an apparatus for illustrating certain principles in statics, consisting of a cord or chain attached at one end to a fixed point, and having the ot…

A searcher; an explorer; an investigator. [Obs.] Searched into by such skillful indagators of nature. Boyle.

The archer fish (Toxotes jaculator).

A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonaseæ). Australian lancewood, a myrtaceous tree (Backhousia Australis).…

A warden of the marches; a marcher.

A shield of basket work formerly used by archers as a shelter from the enemy's missiles.

supreme; preëminent; as, a paramount duty. "A traitor paramount." Bacon. Lady paramount (Archery), the lady making the best score. -- Lord paramount, the king.

arge shield covering the whole body, carried by a pavisor, who sometimes screened also an archer with it. [Written also pavais, pavese, and pavesse.] Fairholt.

The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin. "They that shooten nearest the prick." Spenser.

dom, sometimes hit most happily. Herrick. O, many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant ! Sir W. Scott.

iac, which the sun enters about November 22, marked thus [ ] in almanacs; the Archer.

The Arsenal in Venice; -- so called from having a figure of an archer over the door. Shak.

A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery. Halliwell.

e; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four. The sheaf of arrows shook and rattled in the case. Dryden.

d of a person or an agent; as, they shot at a target; he shoots better than he rides. The archers have . . . shot at him. Gen. xlix. 23.

One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner.