#727. Arms. -- N. arm, arms; weapon, deadly weapon; armament, armaments, 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" [Hen. IV]; dumdum bullet.
explosive; gunpowder, guncotton; mercury fulminate; picrates; pentaerythritol tetranitrate[ISA:chemsub][Chemsub], PETN.
high explosive; trinitrotoluene, TNT; dynamite, melinite[obs], cordite, lyddite, plastic explosive, plastique; pyroxyline[obs].
[knives and swords: list] sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion[obs], scimitar, cimeter[obs], brand, whinyard, bilbo, glaive[obs], glave[obs], rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck, claymore, adaga[obs], baselard[obs], Lochaber ax, skean dhu[obs], creese[obs], kris, dagger, dirk, banger[obs], poniard, stiletto, stylet[obs], dudgeon, bayonet; sword-bayonet, sword-stick; side arms, foil, blade, steel; ax, bill; pole-ax, battle-ax; gisarme[obs], halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife[obs]; ataghan[obs], attaghan[obs], yataghan[obs]; yatacban[obs]; assagai, assegai[obs]; 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[obs].
gun, piece[Fr]; firearms; artillery, ordnance; siege train, battering train; park, battery; cannon, gun of position, heavy gun, field piece[Fr], mortar, howitzer, carronade[obs], culverin[obs], basilisk; falconet, jingal[obs], swivel, pederero[obs], bouche a feu[Fr]; petard, torpedo; mitrailleur[Fr], mitrailleuse[Fr]; infernal machine; smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun[obs], Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine gun; pompom[obs]; ten pounder.
small arms; musket, musketry, firelock[obs], fowling piece[Fr], rifle, fusil[obs], caliver[obs], carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon[obs], Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss[obs], arquebus, haguebut[obs]; pistol, postolet[obs]; 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[obs]; wind gun, air gun; automatic gun, automatic pistol; escopet[obs], escopette[obs], gunflint, gun-lock; hackbut[obs], shooter, shooting iron * [U.S.], six-shooter [U.S.], shotgun; Uzzi, assault rifle, Kalashnikov.
bow, crossbow, balister[obs], 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[obs], langrage shot[obs], round shot, chain shot; balista[obs], ballista[obs], slung shot, trebucbet[obs], trebucket[obs]; bullet, slug, stone, brickbat, grenade, shell, bomb, carcass, rocket; congreve[obs], congreve rocket[obs]; shrapnel, mitraille[Fr]; levin bolt[obs], levin brand[obs]; thunderbolt.
pike, lance, spear, spontoon[obs], javelin, dart, jereed[obs], jerid[obs], arrow, reed, shaft, bolt, boomerang, harpoon, gaff; eelspear[obs], oxgoad[obs], weet-weet, wommerah[obs]; cattle prod; chemical mace.
Phr. en flute; nervos belli pecuniam infinitam[Lat].