Fired at intervals of a minute each during the progress of important funerals.
mĭnūtē, adv., v. minuo, P. a. fin. ...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
minūtē adv.with comp.minutus, pettily, in a paltry manner : grandia dicere: res minutius tractare....
An Elementary Latin Dictionary
·noun A coin; a half farthing. II. Minute ·noun A point of time; a moment. III. Minute ·noun A nau...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun A timeserver; an inconstant person. II. Minute-jack ·noun A figure which strikes the hour on ...
The sixtieth part of a degree of longitude or latitude; in the latter case it is the sixtieth part o...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Properly guns whose weight and power fit them for demolishing by direct force the works of the enemy...
Such guns as are removed to the chase-ports ahead or astern, if not pivot-guns. ...
These are more powerful than those intended for the field; and formerly nearly coincided with naval ...
Those cast expressly for sea-service. ...
See glass. ...
A nautical phrase implying ordnance too heavy for a ship's scantling, or a fort over-gunned. ...
Recently invented guns of great strength, specially adapted to meet the requirements of rifled artil...
To extract the charge of wad, shot, and cartridge from the guns. ...
A kind of portable priming, for insertion into the vent, of various patterns. (See friction-tube, ...
The general armament of a ship. Also, a slang term for the blowing and raining of heavy weather. ...
Heavy gales; a hurricane. ...
The old practice of morning and evening evolutions in a line-of-battle ship, wind and weather permit...