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frames
The bends of timbers constituting the shape of the ship's body when completed a ship is said to be i...

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Balance
·noun The constellation Libra. II. Balance ·noun An apparatus for weighing. III. Balance ·noun A m...

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Balance
Occurs in Lev. 19:36 and Isa. 46:6, as the rendering of the Hebrew kanch', which properly means "a r...

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balance
A mercantile word originally introduced into the ordinary language of life by the southern people, b...

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balance
One of the simple mechanical powers, used in determining the weights and masses of different bodies....

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square-frames
In marine architecture, implies those frames which are square with the line of the keel, having no b...

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Balance wheel
·- A wheel which imparts regularity to the movements of any engine or machine; a fly wheel. II. Bal...

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Trial balance
·add. ·- The testing of a ledger to discover whether the debits and credits balance, by finding whet...

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balance, to
To contract a sail into a narrower compass; this is peculiar to the mizen of a ship, and to the main...

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balance-fish
The hammer-headed shark (which see). ...

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balance-reef
A reef-band that crosses a sail from the outer head-earing to the tack diagonally, making it nearly ...

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jew-balance
A Mediterranean name of the Zygæna malleus, or hammer-headed shark. ...

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balance of trade
A computation of the value of all commodities which we import or export, showing the difference in a...

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counter-balance weight
in the marine engine. (See lever.) Also in many marine barometers, where it slides and is fixed by a...

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