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Dicentra :: Dicentra (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two-spurred or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the more showy Bleeding heart (D. spectabilis)..

Sight :: Sight (v. t.) A small piece of metal, fixed or movable, on the breech, muzzle, center, or trunnion of a gun, or on the breech and the muzzle of a rifle, pistol, etc., by means of which the eye is guided in aiming..

Unbreech :: Unbreech (v. t.) To free the breech of, as a cannon, from its fastenings or coverings..

Breech :: Breech (v. t.) To put into, or clothe with, breeches..

Breech :: Breech (n.) Breeches.

Hose :: Hose (n.) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee..

Gaskins :: Gaskins (n.pl.) Loose hose or breeches; galligaskins.

Breeches :: Breeches (n. pl.) A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes..

Chassepot :: Chassepot (n.) A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun..

Waistband :: Waistband (n.) The band which encompasses the waist; esp., one on the upper part of breeches, trousers, pantaloons, skirts, or the like..

Cascabel :: Cascabel (n.) The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring. [See Illust. of Cannon.].

Corduroy :: Corduroy (n.) Trousers or breeches of corduroy.

Breeching :: Breeching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breec.

Chamber :: Chamber (n.) A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades..

Breechcloth :: Breechcloth (n.) A cloth worn around the breech.

Mitrailleuse :: Mitrailleuse (n.) A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly..

Krupp Gun :: Krupp gun () A breech-loading steel cannon manufactured at the works of Friedrich Krupp, at Essen in Prussia. Guns of over eight-inch bore are made up of several concentric cylinders; those of a smaller size are forged solid..

Short :: Short (n.) Breeches; shortclothes.

Hausse :: Hausse (n.) A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm, or a cannon..

Unbreech :: Unbreech (v. t.) To remove the breeches of; to divest or strip of breeches.

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