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harquebusade, arq-|ˌhɑːkwɪbəˈseɪd, ˌɑːk-|
Also -ada, -ado.
[a. F. (h)arquebusade: see prec. and -ade, -ada, -ado.]
†1. A shot from a harquebus. Obs.
1590Sir R. Williams Disc. Warre 26 The soldiers..discharged a salue of hargubusaides on the poore people. 1591Garrard Art Warre 213 (Stanf.) Hauing shot sixe or 7 Hargabuzades a peece. 1633Batt. Lutzen in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) IV. 190 He..was beaten down with a storm of harquebusado's. 1721Bailey, Arquebusade, a Shot of an Arquebuse.
2. A continuous discharge of harquebus-shots. Cf. cannonade, fusillade.
1562J. Shute tr. Cambine's Turk. Wars 36 b, Their aunswere was, with the faire Cannonade, harquebuzade and such lyke. 1849J. Grant Kirkaldy of G. xiv. 133 They opened a brisk harquebussade on the assailants.
3. (in full harquebusade-water): A lotion regarded as a specific for gunshot and other wounds.
1747Chesterfield Lett. (1792) I. cxxiii. 330 Thank you for the Arquebusade water which you sent her. 1758Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) III. 503 Poor John cut a terrible gash in..his hand. I washed it well with arquebuzade. 1758J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) Aa iij b, Add more or less Arquebusade Water. 1839Lady Lytton Cheveley I. xi. 242 Let me get you something—a little salvolatile, or some arquebusade. |