MORTAR

short cannon with a wide | barrel and mouth, used for firing shelia high up into the + almost vertically on the object. aim ‘lis not very accurate, unle they are rided. Be ee ented by eee ogna, who was bap y maidservant and then delivered Eto t the hands of the Roman Catholic church, His parents vainly tried to recover him, although the Pope was appealed to. When grown up he became a monk, refuxing to return to the Jewish faith. [s. 217]