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Bayonet :: Bayonet (n.) A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense..

Finikin :: Finikin (a.) Precise in trifles; idly busy.

Conversion :: Conversion (n.) A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles..

Rifling :: Rifling (n.) The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon.

Palter :: Palter (v. i.) To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.

Point :: Point (n.) A small matter; a trifle; a least consideration; a punctilio.

Carbine :: Carbine (n.) A short, light musket or rifle, esp. one used by mounted soldiers or cavalry..

Riflebird :: Riflebird (n.) Any one of several species of beautiful birds of Australia and New Guinea, of the genera Ptiloris and Craspidophora, allied to the paradise birds..

Slacken :: Slacken (n.) A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion..

Play :: Play (n.) To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.

Blab :: Blab (v.) To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion..

Toy :: Toy (v. t.) A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle..

Mantelet :: Mantelet (n.) A musket-proof shield of rope, wood, or metal, which is sometimes used for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at embrasures; -- now commonly written mantlet..

Bagatelle :: Bagatelle (n.) A trifle; a thing of no importance.

Fussy :: Fussy (superl) Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about trifles; overnice; fidgety.

Land :: Land (n.) In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves..

Dawdler :: Dawdler (n.) One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.

Shilly-shally :: Shilly-shally (v. i.) To hesitate; to act in an irresolute manner; hence, to occupy one's self with trifles..

Dangler :: Dangler (n.) One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler..

Range :: Range (v.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced..

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