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s stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc. "Armories and magazines." Milton.

A camera in which a number of plates can be exposed without reloading.

One who edits or writes for a magazine. [R.] Goldsmith.

Relating to analects; made up of selections; as, an analectic magazine.

An armory; a magazine or arsenal. [R.]

A literary composition, forming an independent portion of a magazine, newspaper, or cyclopedia.

The range within which the fire of small arms is very destructive. With the magazine rifle, this is six hundred yards.

of steam; to burst; to explode; as, a powder mill or steam boiler blows up. "The enemy's magazines blew up." Tatler.

ding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc.

hich is drawn together with strings like a purse. It is used for carrying powder from the magazine to the battery, in siege or seacoast service.

A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel. Carrier pigeon (Zoöl.), a variety of the domestic pigeon used to convey letters from a distant point to to its home. -- Carrier shell (Zoöl.), a univalve shell of the genus Phorus; -- so called bec…

A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as , the cartoons of "Puck."

h cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.

A self-loading or semi-automatic pistol with removable magazine in the handle holding seven cartridges. The recoil extracts and ejects the empty cartridge case, and reloads ready for another shot. Called also Browning, and Colt-Browning, pistol.

who, or that which, contributes; specifically, one who writes articles for a newspaper or magazine.

e state of being disorganized; as, the disorganization of the body, or of government. The magazine of a pawnbroker in such total disorganization, that the owner can never lay his hands upon any one article at the moment he has occasion for it. Sir W. Scott.

onsisting, or made up, of what is chosen or selected; as, an eclectic method; an eclectic magazine. Eclectic physician, one of a class of practitioners of medicine, who select their modes of practice and medicines from all schools; formerly, sometimes the same as botanic physician. [U.S.] -- Eclectic school. (Paint.) S…

l improvement; instruction. The assured edification of his church. Bp. Hall. Out of these magazines I shall supply the town with what may tend to their edification. Addison.

One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.

A leading article in a newspaper or magazine; an editorial article; an article published as an expression of the views of the editor.