dem i culverin

Old Ordnance A cannon of three sizes: 1. Of the lowest size : A gun four inches two eighths diameter in the bore, and ten feet long. It carries a ball four inches diameter and nine pounds weight. 2. Ordinary: A gun four inches four-eighths diameter in the bore, ten feet long. It carries a ball four inches two-eighths diameter, and ten pounds eleven ounces weight. 3. Elder sort: A gun four inches and six-eighths diameter in the bore, ten feet one-third in length. It carries a ball four inches four eighth-parts diameter, and twelve pounds eleven ounces weight. ( Bailey .) IMG:content-2112.png:[blocks in formation] "They continue a perpetual volley of dem i -culverins."- Raleigh. dem i-deify, v . t. To deify in part. "They dem i - deify and fume him so, That in due season he forgets it too." "In the Red Sea there lieth a great dem i - island named Cadara so far out into the sea that it maketh a huge gulf under the wind."- Holland : Pliny , pt. i., p. 235. (Trench: On some Def. in our Eng . Dict ., p. 31.) IMG:content-2113.png:[blocks in formation] devil. "Will you, I pray you, demand that dem i-devil Why he hath thus ensnared my soul and body?" Shakesp.: Othello, i. 2. IMG:content-2114.png:[blocks in formation]