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ˈmorsing, vbl. n. Sc. Obs. exc. Hist.
Also corruptly 7 mosine; (in Comb.) 8–9 motion-, 9 moshin-.
[f. mors v. + -ing1.]
The action of priming (a gun). In quot. concr., priming-powder, priming.
1629Z. Boyd Last Battell I. 374 They..cry, Peace, peace, euen while God is putting the fierie lunt into the mosine of their sudden destruction.
b. attrib. as morsing-horn, morsing-powder; morsing-hole, touch-hole.
1552Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 131 Hagbutteris, furnischit with powldir flask, morsing hornis, and all uthair geir. 1568Satir. P. Reform. xlvii. 54 Ȝe want ȝor morsing powder. 1789Davidson Seasons 26 An', frae the flake..He whips the carabine.—The motion-hole Frae rust unspik'd..Adown the bank he hastens. 1805Scott Last Minstr. iv. xviii, Buff coats, all frounc'd and 'broidered o'er, And morsing-horns and scarfs they wore. 1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl., Moshin-hole, the touch-hole of a piece of ordnance; ‘pike the moshin-hole’..means, to clean out the touch-hole. 1828Moir Mansie Wauch xii, The piker for clearing the motion-hole. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 485 Morsing powder, an old term for priming powder. |