Word Meanings - SILENCER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The muffler of an internal-combustion engine. Any of various devices to silence the humming noise of telegraph wires. A device for silencing the report of a firearm shooting its projectiles singly, as a tubular attachment for the muzzle having

Additional info about word: SILENCER

The muffler of an internal-combustion engine. Any of various devices to silence the humming noise of telegraph wires. A device for silencing the report of a firearm shooting its projectiles singly, as a tubular attachment for the muzzle having circular plates that permit the passage of the projectile but impart a rotary motion to, and thus retard, the exploding gases.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• FIREARM
  A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.
• HUMMEL
  To separate from the awns; -- said of barley.
• ENGINER
  A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines. Shak.
• ENGINERY
  1. The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. Milton. 2. Engines, in general; instruments of war. Training his devilish enginery. Milton. 3. Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement. Shenstone.
• SINGLY
  1. Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good. 2. Only; by one's self; alone. Look thee, 't is so! Thou singly honest man. Shak. 3. Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed; as, to attack
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• SHOOTING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light. 2. A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically , the killing of game; as, a week of shooting. 3. A sensation of darting pain;
• HUMMER
  A humming bird. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming. Ainsworth.
• TELEGRAPHIC
  Of or pertaining to the telegraph; made or communicated by a telegraph; as, telegraphic signals; telegraphic art; telegraphic intelligence.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• MUZZLE
  1. The projecting mouth and nose of a quadruped, as of a horse; a snout. 2. The mouth of a thing; the end for entrance or discharge; as, the muzzle of a gun. 3. A fastening or covering for the mouth of an animal, to prevent eating or vicious
• TUBULARIAN
  Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida. Note: These hydroids usually form tufts of delicate tubes, and both gonophores and hydranths are naked. The gonophores of many of the species become free jellyfishes; those of other species remain
• COMBUSTION CHAMBER
  A space over, or in front of , a boiler furnace where the gases from the fire become more thoroughly mixed and burnt. The clearance space in the cylinder of an internal combustion engine where the charge is compressed and ignited.
• DEVICEFUL
  Full of devices; inventive. A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman.
• MUZZLE-LOADING
  Receiving its charge through the muzzle; as, a muzzle-loading rifle.
• HUMMOCKY
  Abounding in hummocks.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• HUMMOCKING
  The process of forming hummocks in the collision of Arctic ice. Kane.
• AIR ENGINE
  An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. Knight.
• THUMMIE
  The chiff-chaff.
• PANTELEGRAPH
  See TELEGRAPH
• LOSINGLY
  In a manner to incur loss.
• RADIANT ENGINE
  A semiradial engine. See Radial engine, above.
• UNMUZZLE
  To loose from a muzzle; to remove a muzzle from.
• OVERSHOOT
  1. To shoot over or beyond. "Not to overshoot his game." South. 2. To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond. Hartle. 3. To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth. Cowper. To overshoot one's self, to venture too far; to assert too much.
• RADIAL ENGINE
  An engine, usually an internal-combustion engine of a certain type having several cylinders arranged radially like the spokes of a complete wheel. The semiradial engine has radiating cylinders on only one side of the crank shaft.
• TRAP SHOOTING
  Shooting at pigeons liberated, or glass balls or clay pigeons sprung into the air, from a trap. -- Trap shooter.
• SEMIRADIAL ENGINE
  See ABOVE
• OUTSHOOT
  To exceed or excel in shooting; to shoot beyond. Bacon. Men are resolved never to outshoot their forefathers' mark. Norris.
• DEBASINGLY
  In a manner to debase.
• MISREPORT
  To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of. Locke.