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posed to what is solid and genuine. Gilding metal, a tough kind of sheet brass from which cartridge shells are made.

A weight which is dropped into a bore, as of an oil well, to explode a cartridge previously lowered.

A gunner's case or bag used carry cartridges from the ammunition chest to the piece in loading.

t belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home. Wear thy good rapier bare and put it home. Shak.

A smooth kind of cartridge paper used for making cards. Knight.

A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.

; the petty whin (Genista Anglica). -- Needle gun, a firearm loaded at the breech with a cartridge carrying its own fulminate, which is exploded by driving a slender needle, or pin, into it. -- Needle loom (Weaving), a loom in which the weft thread is carried through the shed by a long eye-pointed needle instead of b…

urchaser. (b) See Bank book. -- Pass box (Mil.), a wooden or metallic box, used to carry cartridges from the service magazine to the piece. -- Pass check, a ticket of admission to a place of entertainment, or of readmission for one who goes away in expectation of returning.

Having a firing pin to explode the cartridge; as, a pin-fire rifle.

To apply priming to, as a musket or a cannon; to apply a primer to, as a metallic cartridge.

-- Priming wire, a pointed wire used to penetrate the vent of a piece, for piercing the cartridge before priming.

nce; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc. [They] rammed me in with foul shirts, and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins. Shak.

In the United States navy, designating such a gun using fixed ammunition or metallic cartridge cases; -- distinguished from breech- loading (abbr. B. L.), applied to all guns loading with the charge in bags, and formerly from quick-fire. Rapid-fire guns in the navy also sometimes include automatic or semiautomatic rapi…

A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.

A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again.

In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel. (b) (Surg.)

[Obs.] Shak. Arch rim (Phonetics), the line between the gums and the palate. -- Rim-fire cartridge. (Mil.) See under Cartridge. -- Rim lock. See under Lock.

ssion fulminate in a rim surrounding the base, distinguished from center-fire; -- said of cartridges; also, using rim-fire cartridges; as, a rim-fire gun. Such cartridges are now little used.

A thick, circular disk of wood, to which the cartridge bag and projectile are attached, in fixed ammunition for cannon; also, a piece of soft metal attached to a projectile to take the groove of the rifling.

A firearm, esp. a pistol, with seven barrels or chambers for cartridges, or one capable of firing seven shots without reloading. [Colloq.]