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Consist of a pointed wire used through the vent to prick the cartridge when it is "home," and of a flat-headed one similarly inserted after discharge to insure its not retaining any ignited particles.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

And thus no doubt there is, that voice and words Consist of elements corporeal, With power to pain.

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery

Alpha Rays Consist of Solid Particles In the first place, these alpha rays have been found to be made up of solid particles, that is, of what we are accustomed to call matter.

From A Brief Account of Radio-activity by Venable, Francis Preston

But if of azure seeds Consist the level waters of the deep, They could in nowise whiten: for however Thou shakest azure seeds, the same can never Pass into marble hue.

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery

A Line, though it be produced of a Point moued, yet, it doth not consist of pointes: Number, though it be not produced of an Vnit, yet doth it Consist of vnits, as a materiall cause.

From The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara by Dee, John