Word Meanings - FIREARM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.

• Gunpowder
  A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting.
• Discharged
  of Discharge
• Discharging
  of Discharge
• Pistoling
  of Pistol
• Discharge
  To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.
• Pistolade
  A pistol shot.
• Discharger
  One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.
• Explosive
  Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as, the explosive force of gunpowder.
• Pistoleer
  One who uses a pistol.
• Explosively
  In an explosive manner.
• Substance
  That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real, in distinction from that which is apparent; the abiding p
• Substanceless
  Having no substance; unsubstantial.

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