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gal. Battery-gun.Lancaster-gun. Birding-piece.Magazine fire-arm. Blunderbuss.Mitrailleur. Bombard.Mortar. Breech-loader.Musket. Byssa.Musketoon. Calabass.Needle-gun. Cannon.Ordnance. Carbine.Parrot-gun. Carronade.Pistol. Casemate-gun.Pistol-carbine. Chassepot-gun.Pivot-gun. Coehorn.Repeating fire-arm. Columbiad.Revolver. Culverin.Rifle. Dahlgren-gun.Shot-gun. Double-barreled gun.Shunt-gun. Enfield-rifle.Siege-gun. Eprouvette.Small-arm. Field-gun.Swivel-gun. Fowling-piece.Tinker. Fusil.Whitworth-gun. This article treats of breech-loading small-arms generally; magazine fire-arms, needle-guns, revol- vers, pistols, cannon, and battery-guns are also considered under their respective heads. It was in 1430, says Biblius, that smallarms were contrived by the Lucquese, when they were besieged by the Florentines. A French translation of Quintius Curtius, preserved in the British Museum, has the earliest illustration of hand fire-arms yet discovered. The cut is fro
nal-rocket. Malkin.Sling. Martel-de-fer.Slow-match. Martin's shell.Slug. Match.Small-arm. Match-lock.Smoke-ball. Merkin.Spear. Metallic cartridge.Spherical case-shot. Minie-ball.Sponge. Mitrailleur.Stanchion-gun. Morning-star.Steam-gun. Mortar.Stiletto. Musket.Stock-fowler. Musketoon.Stretcher. Muzzle-sight.Sumpit. Nail-ball.Swab. Needle-gun.Swivel-gun. Nipple.Sword. Onager.Tangent-scale. Ordnance.Tape-primer. Ordnance-operating.Thumbstall. Paixhan.Time-fuse. Parrot-gun.Tinker. Pass-box.Tomahawk. Pendulum-hausse.Tompion. Percussion cap.Torpedo. Percussion-fuse.Traverse-circle. Percussion-shell.Tube. Priming. Petard.Tumbler-punch. Pike.Twist. Pistol.Vent-stopper. Pistol-carbine.Wad. Pivot-gun.Wad-mill tilt. Pointing-wire.Wad-punch. Poniard.Whip. Port-fire.Whitworth-gun. Pot-gun.Wiper. Powder-flask.Wire-cartridge. Powder-hose.Worm. Primer. Clamp for Clapboarding. Weath′er. (Nautical.) The side of the vessel exposed to the wind; in contra