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- Missile - a. - Capable of being thrown; adapted for hurling or to be projected from the hand, or from any instrument or rngine, so as to strike an object at a distance.
- Missile - n. - A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projcted, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.
- Discharge - v. t. - To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar.
- Dart - n. - A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.
- Point-blank - n. - The white spot on a target, at which an arrow or other missile is aimed.
- Shot - n. - A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet; specifically, whatever is discharged as a projectile from firearms or cannon by the force of an explosive.
- Bolas - n. sing. & pl. - A kind of missile weapon consisting of one, two, or more balls of stone, iron, or other material, attached to the ends of a leather cord; -- used by the Gauchos of South America, and others, for hurling at and entangling an animal.
- Dart - v. t. - To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.
- Slug - n. - An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.
- Gun - n. - A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary.
- Ballistic - a. - Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.
- Boomerang - n. - A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of throwing it, often moving nearly horizontally a long distance, then curving upward to a considerable height, and finally taking a retrograde direction, so as to fall near the place from which it was thrown, or even far in the rear of it.
- Sling - v. t. - An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other. The missile being lodged in a hole in the strap, the ends of the string are taken in the hand, and the whole whirled rapidly round until, by loosing one end, the missile is let fly with centrifugal force.
- Throw - n. - The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.
- Smite - v. t. - To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the fist, with a rod, sword, spear, or stone.
- Arrow - n. - A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow.
- Aim - v. i. - To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a fox, or at a target.
- Shoot - v. i. - To discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; -- followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as an object; -- often with off; as, to shoot a gun.
- White - n. - Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery, which was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at which a missile is shot.
- Bolt - n. - A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart.
- Mark - n. - That toward which a missile is directed; a thing aimed at; what one seeks to hit or reach.
- Random - n. - Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the random of a rifle ball.
- Ballistics - n. - The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine.
- Projectile - n. - A body projected, or impelled forward, by force; especially, a missile adapted to be shot from a firearm.
- Quoit - n. - A flattened ring-shaped piece of iron, to be pitched at a fixed object in play; hence, any heavy flat missile used for the same purpose, as a stone, piece of iron, etc.
- Assegai - n. - A spear used by tribes in South Africa as a missile and for stabbing, a kind of light javelin.
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- G956 βέλος - 956 βέλος - ΒΈΛΟΣ - - bélos - bel'-os - from βάλλω; a missile, i.e. spear or arrow:--dart. - Noun Neuter - greek
- G1002 βολίς - 1002 βολίς - ΒΟΛΊΣ - - bolís - bol-ece' - from βάλλω; a missile, i.e. javelin:--dart. - Noun Feminine - greek
- G2700 κατατοξεύω - 2700 κατατοξεύω - ΚΑΤΑΤΟΞΕΎΩ - - katatoxeúō - kat-at-ox-yoo'-o - from κατά and a derivative of τόξον; to shoot down with an arrow or other missile:--thrust through. - Verb - greek
- H4551 מַסָּע - 4551 מַסָּע - מַסָּע - - maççâʻ - mas-saw' - from נָסַע in the sense of projecting; a missile (spear or arrow); also a quarry (whence stones are, as it were, ejected); before it was brought, dart. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H7973 שֶׁלַח - 7973 שֶׁלַח - שֶׁלַח - - shelach - sheh'-lakh - from שָׁלַח; a missile of attack, i.e. spear; also (figuratively) a shoot of growth; i.e. branch; dart, plant, [idiom] put off, sword, weapon. - Noun Masculine - heb