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One who has charge of a mail coach or a railway train; a conductor. [Eng.]

Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment. They answered and said, He is guilty of death. Matt. xxvi. 66. Nor he, nor you, were guilty…

ully gut, a glutton. [Obs.] Chapman. -- Gully hole, the opening through which gutters discharge surface water.

a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers…

A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps.

The lock of a gun, for producing the discharge. See Lock.

A warrant officer in the navy having charge of the ordnance on a vessel.

A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod. [R.]

Charged or sprinkled with drops.

To set the cock of (a firearm) at the first notch. To go off halfcocked. (a) To be discharged prematurely, or with the trigger at half cock; -- said of a firearm. (b) To do or say something without due thought or care. [Colloq. or Low]

e head. -- To hang fire (Mil.), to be slow in communicating fire through the vent to the charge; as, the gun hangs fire; hence, to hesitate, to hold back as if in suspense.

An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.

ith a broad, fiat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun. Harpoon fork, a kind of hayfork, consisting of bar with hinged barbs at one end a loop for a rope at the other end, used for lifting hay from the load by horse power. -- Harpoon gun, a gun used in the whale fi…

Act of hauling; as, the haulage of cars by an engine; charge for hauling.

To persist in staying or visiting. I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors. Shak.

are brought into gradual action; -- also called lifting machine. -- Health officer, one charged with the enforcement of the sanitary laws of a port or other place. -- To drink a health. See under Drink.

See under Cavalry. -- Heavy fire (Mil.), a continuous or destructive cannonading, or discharge of small arms. -- Heavy metal (Mil.), large guns carrying balls of a large size; also, large balls for such guns. -- Heavy metals. (Chem.) See under Metal. -- Heavy weight, in wrestling, boxing, etc., a term applied to t…

The person at a geodetic station who has charge of the heliotrope.

Any discharge of blood from the blood vessels.

s around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods. [The sing. hemorrhoid is rarely used.]