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small arms

(Encyclopedia)small arms, firearms designed primarily to be carried and fired by one person and, generally, held in the hands, as distinguished from heavy arms, or artillery. Automatic small arms were develope...

Colt, Samuel

(Encyclopedia)Colt, Samuel, 1814–62, American inventor, b. Hartford, Conn. In 1835–36, he patented a revolving-breech pistol and founded at Paterson, N.J., the Patent Arms Company, which failed in 1842. An orde...

small intestine

(Encyclopedia)small intestine: see intestine.

Small, Albion Woodbury

(Encyclopedia)Small, Albion Woodbury, 1854–1926, American sociologist, b. Buckfield, Maine, grad. Colby College, 1876, and further educated in Germany. He was made president of Colby in 1889, but left it in 1892 ...

Small Magellanic Cloud

(Encyclopedia)Small Magellanic Cloud: see Magellanic Clouds. ...

Arms, John Taylor

(Encyclopedia)Arms, John Taylor, 1887–1953, American etcher and draftsman, b. Washington, D.C. He studied architecture, but later he devoted himself to etching and became noted for his excellent studies of mediev...

arms, coat of

(Encyclopedia)arms, coat of: see blazonry; heraldry. ...

College of Arms

(Encyclopedia)College of Arms: see Heralds' College. ...

coat of arms

(Encyclopedia)coat of arms: see blazonry and heraldry. ...

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

(Encyclopedia)Strategic Arms Limitation Talks: see disarmament, nuclear. ...