Word Meanings - FALCONET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One of the smaller cannon used in the 15th century and later. One of several very small Asiatic falcons of the genus Microhierax. One of a group of Australian birds of the genus Falcunculus, resembling shrikes and titmice.

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• LATERAN
  The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world. Note: The name is said to have been derived from that of the Laterani family, who possessed
• CANNON BONE
  See BONE
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• ASIATIC
  Of or pertaining to Asia or to its inhabitants. -- n.
• CANNONADE
  1. The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle
• LATER
  A brick or tile. Knight.
• LATERIFOLIOUS
  Growing from the stem by the side of a leaf; as, a laterifolious flower.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• CANNONEER; CANNONIER
  A man who manages, or fires, cannon.
• CENTURY
  1. A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things. And on it said a century of prayers. Shak. 2. A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago. Note: Century, in the reckoning of time, although
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• ASIATICISM
  Something peculiar to Asia or the Asiatics.
• SEVERALITY
  Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall.
• CANNONED
  Furnished with cannon. "Gilbralter's cannoned steep." M. Arnold.
• SEVERALLY
  Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey.
• SEVERAL
  1. Separate; distinct; particular; single. Each several ship a victory did gain. Dryden. Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. Pope. 2. Diverse; different; various. Spenser. Habits and faculties,
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• SLATER
  One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• SUBGROUP
  A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin.
• INFLATER
  One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.
• WENLOCK GROUP
  The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.
• AGGROUPMENT
  Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
• LUDLOW GROUP
  A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; -- so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology.
• HELIOLATER
  A worshiper of the sun.
• ELATEROMETER
  See ELATROMETER
• COLLATERALLY
  1. Side by side; by the side. These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins. 2. In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly. The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly. Jer. Taylor. 3. In collateral relation;