missile (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. tēlum2. missĭle, is, n. (strictly adj., with telum understood)3. tormentum (discharged by an engine) • missile (subs.): 1. tēlum: they hurled their m.s against our men, t. in nostros conjiciebant, Caes. B. G. 1, 26: cf. ib. 4, 23 (but telum is a missile intended to pierce or cut; not merely to strike, as a stone): a cloud of light m.s, nubes levium t., Liv.: more precisely, missile telum, Liv. 38, 22, ad fin. (vis ingens missilium telorum): Virg. 2. missĭle, is, n. (strictly adj., with telum understood): to fight with m.s, missilibus pugnare, Liv. 34, 39, init. 3. tormentum (discharged by an engine): Caes. B. C. 3, 51, fin.: Plin.