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A little ball; as, a pellet of wax .

Made of, or like, pellets; furnished with pellets. [R.] "This pelleted storm." Shak.

A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying dowm.

Same as Capellet.

te will peep. Shak. By crystal streams that murmur through the meads. Dryden. The crystal pellets at the touch congeal, And from the ground rebounds the ratting hail. H. Brooks.

A little pill or pellet used by homeopathists.

A little grain a small particle; a pellet.

fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary. As swift as a pellet out of a gunne When fire is in the powder runne. Chaucer. The word gun was in use in England for an engine to cast a thing from a man long before there was any gunpowder found out. Selden.

owder tea, a species of fine green tea, each leaf of which is rolled into a small ball or pellet.

A single particle of ice falling from a cloud; a frozen raindrop; a pellet of hail.

lline slightly sweet substance obtained by evaporation of the whey of milk. It is used in pellets and powder as a vehicle for homeopathic medicines, and as an article of diet. See Lactose.

To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail. The children billows seem to pelt the clouds. Shak.

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

vity or by centrifugation. Contrasted with the solid sediment, or (in centrifugation) the pellet.

A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object. Fish torpedo, a spindle- shaped, or fish-shaped, self-propelling submarine torpedo. -- Spar torpedo, a canister or other vessel containing an explosive charge, and attached to the end of a long spar which projects…

A long tube through which pellets of clay, p He shot sugarplums them out of a trunk. Howell.