a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War
operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control
resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine
without volition or conscious control
English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)
cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill
United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)
a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore
