Míssilis, & hoc míssile, pen. cor. That may be throwne, cast, or hurled.Missile. Plin. A dart, stone, or other thing hurled or throwne.Missile tremulum torquere. Lucan. Missiles aculei sunt histrici. Plin. The orpin hath such prickes as he can cast from him.Missiles lapides.Liu. Pondus missile disci. Propert. Missilia saxa, & missilia tela.Liu. Mifsilia tormenta. Plin. Missilia. Suet. Thinges that Emperours or Princes were woont to cast in a largesse among the people, as bread, cakes, money, &c.Miua.An Arabian worde signifiyng the iuyce of fruites boyled vntill they be as thicke as hony. as, Miua cidoniorum.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
missĭlis, e, adj. [id.], that may be hurled or cast, that is thrown or hurled, missile (not in Cic. or Cæs.): lapides missiles,
slingstones
, Liv. 1, 43: telum, id. 22, 37: ferro, quod nunc missile libro,
a javelin
, Verg. A. 10, 421: sagittae, Hor. C. 3, 6, 16: uni sibi missile ferrum,
which he alone can launch
, Stat. Th. 8, 524: aculei (of the porcupine),
capable of being shot forth
, Plin. 8, 35, 53, 125.—II.Subst.A. missĭle, is, n., a missile weapon, missile, a javelin: missilibus Lacedaemonii pugnabant, Liv. 34, 39; in plur.: missilibus lacessere, Verg. A. 10, 716: pellere missilibus, id. ib. 9, 520; 10, 802; in sing., Luc. 7, 485.—B. missĭlĭa, ĭum, n., or res missiles, presents thrown by the emperors among the people: sparsa et populo missilia omnium rerum, Suet. Ner. 11; cf.: jocandi licentia diripiendi pomorum, et obsoniorum rerumque missilium, id. Aug. 98.— 2.Trop.: ad haec, quae a fortunā sparguntur, sinum expandit et sollicitus missilia ejus exspectat, Sen. Ep. 74, 6.