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The breech mechanism in breech loading small arms and certain special guns as automatic and machine guns used frequently in referring to the method by which the movable barrels of breech loading shotguns are locked unlocked or rotated to loading position...
Bears breech
The English cow parsnip Heracleum sphondylium...
Brankursine
Bears breech or Acanthus...
Breeching
A whipping on the breech or the act of whipping on the breech...
Breech loading
Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle...
Breech pin
A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm to close the bottom of the bore...
Breech sight
A device attached to the breech of a firearm to guide the eye in conjunction with the front sight in taking aim...
Armorial bearings
Armorial bearings, a device depicted on the (now imaginary) shield of one of the nobility, of which gentry is the lowest degree. The criterion of nobility is the bearing of arms, or armorial bearings, received from ancestry. There is nothing, however, to prevent persons assuming arbitrary insignia and armorial bearings; and all persons entitled to bear arms can register their genealogies and families at the Heralds' College, Benet's Hill, London, on payment of a moderate fee, the heralds being the examiners of these matters and the recorders of genealogies. 43 Geo. 3, c. 161, imposed an assessed tax upon armorial bearings, whether borne on plate, carriages, seals, or in any other way. This Act is now replaced by the (English) Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 14), s. 19, by which 'armorial bearings' includes any armorial bearings, crest, or ensign, by whatever name called, and whether registered in the College of Arms or not. This Act, by s. 18, fixes the tax as fo...
Child-bearing
Child-bearing. The English law admits of no presumption as to the time when a woman ceases to bear children, though this enters into most other codes, and the practice of the Courts in treating women of a certain age as past child-bearing is not a rule of law but is a mere rule of convenience in the administration fo estates; there is no legal impossibility in a woman 100 years old bearing a child; see Farwell on Powers, p. 295 and cases there referred to; Co. Litt. 40 b. The possibility of bearing a child after the age of fifty-four was recognized by the Court of Appeal in Corxton v. May, (1878) 9 Ch D 388, in a case where the woman had been married only three years....
Kodiak bear
A large brown bear Ursus middendorffi syn Ursus arctos middendorffi of coastal Alaska and British Columbia related to the grizzly bear called also Kodiak bear...
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