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An apparatus for measuring the velocity imparted by gunpowder.

The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it. Strong As aconitum or rash gunpowder. Shak.

Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun.

A kind of gun metal, containing copper, zinc, and iron, but no tin.

The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it. Each at the head leveled his deadly a…

A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel.

A beautiful butterfly (Argunnis Aphrodite) of the United States.

The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.

A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention. [Written also harquebus.]

ty of aromatic plants, as rosemary, millefoil, etc.; -- originally used as a vulnerary in gunshot wounds. Parr.

A soldier armed with an arquebus. Soldiers armed with guns, of whatsoever sort or denomination, appear to have been called arquebusiers. E. Lodge.

ctly; to give utterance to. Luther articulated himself upon a process that hand already begun in the Christian church. Bibliotheca Sacra. To . . . articulate the dumb, deep want of the people. Carlyle.

A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman.

Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds.

A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc.

A man who manages, or assists in managing, a large gun in firing.

A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet. En barbette, In barbette, said of guns when they are elevated so as to fire over the top of a parapet, and not through embrasures. -- Barbette gun, or Barbette battery, a single gun, or a number of guns, mounted in b…

A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged. Knight.

Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun.

(Ordnance), a projecting band of metal around the breech, connected with the body of the gun by a concave molding. H. L. Scott.