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Mouse :: Mouse (n.) A match used in firing guns or blasting.

Foul :: Foul (v. i.) To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun..

Firing :: Firing (n.) Fuel; firewood or coal.

Plunger :: Plunger (n.) The firing pin of a breechloader.

Quadrate :: Quadrate (v. t.) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing..

Touch-paper :: Touch-paper (n.) Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like..

Fire :: Fire (n.) The discharge of firearms; firing; as, the troops were exposed to a heavy fire..

Enfilade :: Enfilade (n.) A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire..

Foul :: Foul (v. t.) To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.

Fuel :: Fuel (v. t.) To store or furnish with fuel or firing.

Firing :: Firing (n.) The application of fire, or of a cautery..

Breastheight :: Breastheight (n.) The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garrison lean in firing..

Arson :: Arson (n.) The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship..

Firing :: Firing (n.) The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it.

Gutter :: Gutter (n.) Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing..

Cock :: Cock (v. i.) To draw back the hammer of a firearm, and set it for firing..

Ricochet :: Ricochet (v. t.) To operate upon by ricochet firing. See Ricochet, n..

Murdress :: Murdress (n.) A battlement in ancient fortifications with interstices for firing through.

Silence :: Silence (v. t.) To cause to cease firing, as by a vigorous cannonade; as, to silence the batteries of an enemy..

Gunshot :: Gunshot (n.) Act of firing a gun; a shot.

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