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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..

Haberdashery :: Haberdashery (n.) The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also (Fig.), trifles..

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

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

Quibble :: Quibble (v. i.) To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate..

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

Palter :: Palter (v. t.) To trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or on worthless things.

Rifle :: Rifle (n.) A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket..

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

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

Pennyworth :: Pennyworth (n.) A small quantity; a trifle.

Rifleman :: Rifleman (n.) A soldier armed with a rifle.

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..

Dallier :: Dallier (n.) One who fondles; a trifler; as, dalliers with pleasant words..

Knickknack :: Knickknack (n.) A trifle or toy; a bawble; a gewgaw.

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

Rifle :: Rifle (n.) A body of soldiers armed with rifles.

Rifleman :: Rifleman (pl. ) of Riflema.

Stripe :: Strip (n.) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.

Armory :: Armory (n.) A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords..

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