Word Meanings - SHOT-FREE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not to be injured by shot; shot-proof. Feltham.

Related words: (words related to SHOT-FREE)

• PROOF-PROOF
  Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong. "That might have shown to any one who was not proof-proof." Whateley.
• INJURE
  To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. To slander,
• INJURIOUS
  1. Not just; wrongful; iniquitous; culpable. Milton. Till the injurious Roman did extort This tribute from us, we were free. Shak. 2. Causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental; mischievous; as, acts injurious to health,
• INJURIOUSNESS
  The quality of being injurious or hurtful; harmfulness; injury.
• INJURIA
  Injury; invasion of another's rights.
• INJURER
  One who injures or wrongs.
• PROOF
  A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet. (more info) 1. Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
• PROOF-ARM
  To arm with proof armor; to arm securely; as, to proof-arm herself. Beau. & Fl.
• INJURIOUSLY
  In an injurious or hurtful manner; wrongfully; hurtfully; mischievously.
• PROOFLESS
  Wanting sufficient evidence to induce belief; not proved. Boyle. -- Proof"less*ly, adv.
• INJURY
  Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired
• SELF-REPROOF
  The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
• HIGH-PROOF
  1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak.
• PLOT-PROOF
  Secure against harm by plots. Shak.
• DISPROOF
  A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement. I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other. Rogers.
• BULLET-PROOF
  Capable of resisting the force of a bullet. Bullet tree. See Bully tree. -- Bullet wood, the wood of the bullet tree.
• STARPROOF
  Impervious to the light of the stars; as, a starproof elm. Milton.
• WATERPROOF
  Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof.
• BOMBPROOF
  Secure against the explosive force of bombs. -- n.
• WEATHERPROOF
  Proof against rough weather.
• SHELLPROOF
  Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.
• BEAD PROOF
  1. Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters. 2. A degree of
• SUNPROOF
  Impervious to the rays of the sun. "Darksome yew, sunproof." Marston.
• APPROOF
  1. Trial; proof. Shak. 2. Approval; commendation. Shak.
• REPROOF
  1. Refutation; confutation; contradiction. 2. An expression of blame or censure; especially, blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; chiding; reproach. Those best can bear reproof who merit praise. Pope. Syn. -- Admonition; reprehension;