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The male of the sparrow hawk.

A soldier armed with a musket.

See Mosquito.

A short musket.

Muskets, collectively.

An unfledged or young male sparrow hawk. [Obs.] Shak.

direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object; as, to aim a musket or an arrow, the fist or a blow (at something); to aim a satire or a reflection (at some person or vice).

any living beings; swarming; thronged. The Boyne, for a quarter of a mile, was alive with muskets and green boughs. Macaulay.

A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords. [U.S.]

arms, armed for war; in a state of hostility. -- Small arms, portable firearms known as muskets, rifles, carbines, pistols, etc. -- A stand of arms, a complete set for one soldier, as a musket, bayonet, cartridge box and belt; frequently, the musket and bayonet alone. -- To arms! a summons to war or battle. -- Und…

firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention. [Written also harquebus.]

ulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt.

A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.

Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin. [Obs.]

A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense.

r structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- former…

A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore.

brown as the oak leaves. Longfellow. Brown Bess, the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket, with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army. -- Brown bread (a) Dark colored bread; esp. a kind made of unbolted wheat flour, sometimes called in the United States Graham bread. "He would mouth with a beggar th…

missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm.

1st Butt. But end, the larger or thicker end; as, the but end of a log; the but end of a musket. See Butt, n.