A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks
of boarders; -- called also murdering piece.
One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his
reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.
1. Reverence for animal life or belief in animal powers and influences, as among savages. 2. (Biol.) A doctrine, now discarded, that the phenomena of l...
