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Trick :: Trick (a.) A toy; a trifle; a plaything.

Trifle :: Trifle (v. t.) To spend in vanity; to fritter away; to waste; as, to trifle away money..

Quiddler :: Quiddler (n.) One who wastes his energy about trifles.

Miniment :: Miniment (n.) A trifle; a trinket; a token.

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

Ado :: Ado (n.) Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles..

Toyer :: Toyer (n.) One who toys; one who is full of trifling tricks; a trifler.

Rush :: Rush (n.) The merest trifle; a straw.

Putter :: Putter (v. i.) To act inefficiently or idly; to trifle; to potter.

Trifle :: Trifle (n.) To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements..

Strickle :: Strickle (n.) An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle.

Nifle :: Nifle (n.) A trifle.

Smoothbore :: Smoothbore (a.) Having a bore of perfectly smooth surface; -- distinguished from rifled.

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

Musket :: Musket (n.) A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle..

Piddle :: Piddle (v. i.) To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important.

Polygrooved :: Polygrooved (a.) Having many grooves; as, a polygrooved rifle or gun (referring to the rifling)..

Whitworth Gun :: Whitworth gun () A form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England..

Fuss :: Fuss (n.) One who is unduly anxious about trifles.

Player :: Player (n.) One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler..

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