Word Meanings - FIELDPIECE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.

• Callosity
  A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
• Cannonry
  Cannon, collectively; artillery.
• Marchioness
  The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis.
• Mountant
  Raised; high.
• Piecener
  One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills.
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Cannonical
  Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons.
• March-mad
  Extremely rash; foolhardy. See under March, the month.
• Mountebank
  One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor.
• Piecer
  One who pieces; a patcher.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Marchman
  A person living in the marches between England and Scotland or Wales.
• Mountebankery
  The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
• Piecework
  Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed.
• Artillery
  Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.

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