Crossword clues for basilic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Basilic \Ba*sil"ic\, n. [F. basilique.] Basilica.
Basilic \Ba*sil"ic\, Basilical \Ba*sil"ic*al\, a. [See Basilica.]
Royal; kingly; also, basilican.
(Anat.) Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm.
Wiktionary
a. 1 royal; kingly 2 basilican 3 (context anatomy English) Relating to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, such as the basilic vein. n. A basilica.
WordNet
Wikipedia
The Basilic, or The Ottoman Cannon was a supercannon designed by Urban, a Wallachian cannon engineer, Saruca Usta and architect Muslihiddin Usta at a time when cannons were still new. It was horribly inaccurate, but when it hit, it caused massive damage to Constantinople's walls. Additionally, due to the material the cannon was constructed of, and the intense heat created by the charge, the cannon had to be cooled with olive oil between shots to prevent cracking. The heat also prevented the cannon from being fired more than three times per day. Ultimately, it lasted all of six weeks before becoming non-functional.
- Length: ~24 feet (7.32 m)
- Diameter: 2.5 feet (76.2 cm)
- Cannonball: 1200 lb (544 kg)
- Range: ~1 mile (1.6 km)
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Category:Superguns Category:Constantinople Category:Individual cannons
Basilic can refer to:
- Basilic (cannon)
- Basilic vein
- French for basilisk
Usage examples of "basilic".
Stern went to Sir Luis Basilic of the old stockbroking firm of Basilio and Sons, who had a great block of Struan's personally, as well as many substantial clients with more.
Thus aided, the doctor and his friends were enabled to embark almost immediately on the small steamer called the Basilic, which ran down to the mouth of the river.
Exceedingly painful, and with luck it might have nicked the basilic vein, adding to Pendergast's loss of blood.
Exceedingly painful, and with luck it might have nicked the basilic vein, adding to Pendergast’s loss of blood.
The sixty books of the Basilics, ^5 the code and pandects of civil jurisprudence, were gradually framed in the three first reigns of that prosperous dynasty.
The Basilics will sink to a broken copy, a partial and mutilated version, in the Greek language, of the laws of Justinian.
Besides the Basilics, or code of laws, the arts of husbandry and war, of feeding or destroying the human species, were propagated with equal diligence.
The sixty books of the Basilics, ^5 the code and pandects of civil jurisprudence, were gradually framed in the three first reigns of that prosperous dynasty.
The Basilics will sink to a broken copy, a partial and mutilated version, in the Greek language, of the laws of Justinian.
Besides the Basilics, or code of laws, the arts of husbandry and war, of feeding or destroying the human species, were propagated with equal diligence.
Exceedingly painful, and with luck it might have nicked the basilic vein, adding to Pendergast’.
He feels it surging up his median basilic vein, through biceps and into torso, and almost at once an intolerable fluttering arises within his heart, the busy twitching-pecking-fluffing of something making a nest.