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h-loading steel cannon manufactured at the works of Friedrich Krupp, at Essen in Prussia. Guns of over eight-inch bore are made up of several concentric cylinders; those of a smaller size are forged solid. Knight.

See Lagoon.

A kind of machine gun; -- named after its inventor, Hiram S. Maxim.

A child's gun; a tube and rammer for shooting pellets, with a popping noise, by compression of air.

A pot-shaped cannon; a mortar. [Obs.] "Twelve potguns of brass." Hakluyt.

A mixture of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions. Johnson.

ilitary governor of the eastern provinces of Japan. By gradual usurpation of power the Shoguns (known to foreigners as Tycoons) became finally the virtual rulers of Japan. The title was abolished in 1867. [Written variously, Shiogun, Shiogoon, etc.]

The office or dignity of a Shogun. [Written also Siogoonate.]

A light, smooth-bored gun, often double-barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game.

A piebald variety of the horse, native of Thibet.

Not yet begun; also, existing without a beginning.

One of a system of guns manufactured by the firm of Vickers' Sons, at Sheffield, Eng. now included in Vickers-Maxim guns.

An automatic machine gun in which the mechanism is worked by the recoil, assisted by the pressure of gases from the muzzle, which expand in a gas chamber against a disk attached to the end of the barrel, thus moving the latter to the rear with increased recoil, and against the front wall of the gas chamber, checking th…

One of a system of ordnance, including machine, quick-fire, coast, and field guns, of all calibers, manufactured by the combined firms of Vickers' Sons of Sheffield and Maxim of Birmingham and elsewhere, England.

A form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England.

= Wire-wound gun.

A gun in the construction of which an inner tube (either entire or in segments) is wound with wire under tension to insure greater soundness and uniformity of resistance. In modern construction hoops and jackets are shrunk on over the wire.

A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more."

To finish; to accomplish. [Obs.] The work begun, how soon absolved. Milton.

An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc.