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Entry 5 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Magnum

/(măg"nŭm)/ · Mag·num · IPA /ˈmæɡnəm/
01 n. A large wine bottle.
  1. 1.
    A large wine bottle.
    “They passed the magnum to one another freely.” — Sir W. Scott.
  2. 2.
    A bone of the carpus at the base of the third metacarpal bone.(Anat.)
  3. 3.
    A magnum pistol, or the cartridge such a pistol uses; as, he always carried a .44 magnum.
02 a. Having a larger charge than usual for a cartridge of the same caliber; -- of cartridges for handgun; as, a .44 magnum cartridge.
  1. 1.
    Having a larger charge than usual for a cartridge of the same caliber; -- of cartridges for handgun; as, a .44 magnum cartridge.(Firearms)
  2. 2.
    Designed to use a cartridge with a larger charge than usual for handguns of the same caliber; -- of handguns; as, a .44 magnum pistol.(Firearms)