Bible Dictionaries

Webster's Dictionary

Target

(1):

(n.) A tassel or pendent; also, a shred; tatter.

(2):

(n.) A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.

(3):

(n.) A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.

(4):

(n.) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark; as, he made a good target.

(5):

(n.) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.

(6):

(n.) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.

(7):

(n.) A thin cut; a slice; specif., of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast joints.