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noun

Missile n.

A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projected, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.

A rocket-propelled device designed to fly through the air and deliver a warhead of explosive materials to a target. Note: Numerous types of rocket-propelled missile (2) are now used in modern warfare. Some types with names indicating their range or function are: antiaircraft missile; ballistic missile; cruise missile; antiballistic missile missile; air-to-air missile; air-to-ground missile; guided missile; intercontinental ballistic missile (IBM); intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM); surface-to-air missile.

adjective

Missile adj. Capable of being thrown; adapted for hurling or to be projected from the hand, or from any instrument or engine (2), so as to strike an object at a distance. "We bend the bow, or wing the missile dart."

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Etymology of 'Missile'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Missile" Quotes from Famous Books

... clean handkerchief. God, we'll simply have to dress the character. I want puce gloves and green boots. Contradiction. Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. Mercurial Malachi. A limp black missile flew out of his ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce

... seemed to be seeking some other missile. He perceived his hat on the chest of drawers, seized it, and strode ...

— Love and Mr. Lewisham • H. G. Wells

... the Portuguese against the zamorin. Being informed likewise that the Cochin rajah was in great fear of this new war, he went next day to visit him, carrying all his boats well manned, and fenced with raised sides of boards to defend his men from the missile weapons of the enemy. They were likewise furnished with ordnance, and all decorated with flags and streamers in a gallant manner, hoping thereby to inspire confidence in Trimumpara, who was much dejected at the small force which had been left for his defence. In a conference between them, the rajah ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. II • Robert Kerr

... it were a gun, and moving it in a serpentine and interrupted manner toward one of the large joints of the candidate's arms or legs. At the last utterance of this sound he produces a quick puff with the breath and thrusts the bag forward as if shooting, which he pretends to do, the missile being supposed to be the invisible sacred m[-i]/gis. The other priests follow in order from the lowest to the highest, each selecting a different joint, during which ordeal the candidate trembles more and more violently until at last he is overcome with the ...

— The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa • Walter James Hoffman

... nutlets) - which grew upon the brink. As I so swung, I received a crack on the head that knocked me all abroad. Impossible to guess what tree had taken a shy at me. So many towered above, one over the other, and the missile, whatever it was, dropped in the stream and was gone before I had recovered my wits. (I scarce know what I write, so hideous a Niagara of rain roars, shouts, and demonizes on the iron roof - it is pitch dark too - the lamp lit at 5!) It ...

— Vailima Letters • Robert Louis Stevenson

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