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Ballistics :: Ballistics (n.) The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine.

Point-blank :: Point-blank (n.) The white spot on a target, at which an arrow or other missile is aimed..

Shoot :: 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..

Shot :: 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..

Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as, shooting pains..

Dart :: Dart (v. t.) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch..

Ballistic :: Ballistic (a.) Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine..

Assegai :: Assegai (n.) A spear used by tribes in South Africa as a missile and for stabbing, a kind of light javelin..

Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To let fly, as a missile; to shoot..

Missive :: Missive (n.) Missile.

White :: 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..

Scorpion :: Scorpion (n.) An ancient military engine for hurling stones and other missiles.

Missile :: Missile (n.) A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projcted, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet..

Machicolation :: Machicolation (n.) The act of discharging missiles or pouring burning or melted substances upon assailants through such apertures.

Pannier :: Pannier (n.) A shield of basket work formerly used by archers as a shelter from the enemy's missiles.

Espringal :: Espringal (n.) An engine of war used for throwing viretons, large stones, and other missiles; a springal..

Spitbox :: Spitball (n.) Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a missile..

Discharge :: 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..

Boomerang :: 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 t

Missile :: 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..

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