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found both in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonefish, grubber, French mullet, and macabé.

both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral…

The American white mullet (Mugil curema).

To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree.

The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, or Mexicanus).

A conical rifle bullet, with a cavity in its base plugged with a piece of iron, which, by the explosion of the charge, is driven farther in, expanding the sides to fit closely the grooves of the barrel.

m the true direction. Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss. Bacon. Flying bullets now, To execute his rage, appear too slow; They miss, or sweep but common souls away. Waller.

A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projcted, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.

A genus of fishes including the gray mullets. See Mullet.

Like or pertaining to the genus Mullus, which includes the surmullet, or red mullet.

A method of excavating, as in a bank, by a series of cuttings side by side. See also Gulleting.

A bullet; a ball for firearms. [Obs.] Bacon. As swift as a pellet out of a gun. Chaucer. Pellet molding (Arch.), a narrow band ornamented with smalt, flat disks.

An order of fishes including the gray mullets (Mugil), the barracudas, the silversides, and other related fishes. So called from their relation both to perches and to pikes.

, is, used, it is called mediate. Center of percussion. See under Center. -- Percussion bullet, a bullet containing a substance which is exploded by percussion; an explosive bullet. -- Percussion cap, a small copper cap or cup, containing fulminating powder, and used with a percussion lock to explode gunpowder. -- P…

The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.

A pullet from which the ovaries have been removed to produce fattening; hence, a fat pullet.

mstances of a wound, ulcer, or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, of for exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc. Parr. Probe, or Probe-pointed, scissors (Surg.), scissors used to open wounds, the blade of which, to be thrust into the orifice, has a button at the end. Wiseman.

An edict published for public information; an official bulletin; a public proclamation.

of; to graze.[Obsoles.] Was he not in the . . . neighborhood to death and might not the bullet which rased his cheek have gone into his head South. Sometimes his feet rased the surface of water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose. Beckford.

To strike, hit, or tough with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell.