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Torpedo

Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical.

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Alarm 76% connected

A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.

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Alarum 76% connected

See Alarm.

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Alert 76% connected

Watchful; vigilant; active in vigilance.

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Armament 76% connected

A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force.

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Assail 76% connected

To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.

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Attack 76% connected

To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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Firework 76% connected

A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some…

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Liquidator 76% connected

One who, or that which, liquidates.

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Manslayer 76% connected

One who kills a human being; one who commits manslaughter.

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Murderer 76% connected

One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.

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Pyrotechnic 76% connected

Alt. of Pyrotechnical

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Ray 76% connected

To array.

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Sandwich 76% connected

Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them.

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Crampfish 92% connected

The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives an electric shock. See Electric fish, and Torpedo.

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Grinder 92% connected

One who, or that which, grinds.

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Gun 92% connected

of Gin

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Hero 92% connected

An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.

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Numbfish 92% connected

The torpedo, which numbs by the electric shocks which it gives.

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Shooter 92% connected

One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner.

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Sub 92% connected

A subordinate; a subaltern.

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Submarine 92% connected

Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.

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Wedge 92% connected

A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising…

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