armature; panoply, stand of arms; armor &c (defense) 717; armory &c
(store) 636; apparatus belli [Lat.].
ammunition; powder, powder and shot; cartridge; ball cartridge,
cartouche, fireball; villainous saltpeter [Henry IV]; dumdum bullet.
explosive; gunpowder, guncotton; mercury fulminate; picrates;
pentaerythritol tetranitrate, PETN.
high explosive; trinitrotoluene, TNT; dynamite, melinite†, cordite,
lyddite, plastic explosive, plastique; pyroxyline†.
[knives and swords: list] sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass,
falchion†, scimitar, cimeter†, brand, whinyard, bilbo, glaive†, glave†,
rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck, claymore, adaga†, baselard†,
Lochaber ax, skean dhu†, creese†, kris, dagger, dirk, banger†, poniard,
stiletto, stylet†, dudgeon, bayonet; sword-bayonet, sword-stick; side
arms, foil, blade, steel; ax, bill; pole-ax, battle-ax; gisarme†,
halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife†; ataghan†, attaghan†,
yataghan†; yatacban†; assagai, assegai†; good sword, trusty sword, naked
sword; cold steel.
club, mace, truncheon, staff, bludgeon, cudgel, life preserver,
shillelah, sprig; hand staff, quarter staff; bat, cane, stick, knuckle
duster; billy, blackjack, sandbag, waddy†.
gun, piece [Fr.]; firearms; artillery, ordnance; siege train,
battering train; park, battery; cannon, gun of position, heavy gun,
field piece [Fr.], mortar, howitzer, carronade†, culverin†, basilisk;
falconet, jingal†, swivel, pederero†, bouche a feu [Fr.]; petard,
torpedo; mitrailleur [Fr.], mitrailleuse [Fr.]; infernal machine;
smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun†, Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun,
Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine
gun; pompom†; ten pounder.
small arms; musket, musketry, firelock†, fowling piece [Fr.],
rifle, fusil†, caliver†, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon†, Brown Bess,
matchlock, harquebuss†, arquebus, haguebut†; pistol, postolet†; petronel;
small bore; breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis
rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider
rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle,
Mauser rifle, magazine rifle; needle gun, chassepot†; wind gun, air gun;
automatic gun, automatic pistol; escopet†, escopette†, gunflint, gun-
lock; hackbut†, shooter, shooting iron [U.S.], six-shooter [U.S.],
shotgun; Uzzi, assault rifle, Kalashnikov.
bow, crossbow, balister†, catapult, sling; battering ram &c
(impulse) 276; gunnery; ballistics &c (propulsion) 284.
missile, bolt, projectile, shot, ball; grape; grape shot, canister
shot, bar shot, cannon shot, langrel shot†, langrage shot†, round shot,
chain shot; balista†, ballista†, slung shot, trebucbet†, trebucket†;
bullet, slug, stone, brickbat, grenade, shell, bomb, carcass, rocket;
congreve†, congreve rocket†; shrapnel, mitraille [Fr.]; levin bolt†,
levin brand†; thunderbolt.
pike, lance, spear, spontoon†, javelin, dart, jereed†, jerid†,
arrow, reed, shaft, bolt, boomerang, harpoon, gaff; eelspear†, oxgoad†,
weet-weet, wommerah†; cattle prod; chemical mace.
Phr. en flute; nervos belli pecuniam infinitam [Lat.].