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Engine
·vt To assault with an engine.
II. Engine ·noun (Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity...
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Engine
a term applied exclusively to military affairs in the Bible. The engines to which the term is applie...
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Air
·noun Intelligence; information.
II. Air ·noun Odoriferous or contaminated air.
III. Air ·noun Utt...
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Air
The atmosphere, as opposed to the higher regions of the sky (1 Thess. 4:17; Rev. 9:2; 16:17). This w...
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air
The elastic, compressible, and dilatable fluid encompassing the terraqueous globe. It penetrates and...
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Bogie engine
·add. ·- A switching engine the running gear and driving gear of which are on a bogie, or truck.
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Diesel engine
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Diesel motor.
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Engine-sized
·adj Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp;
— said of paper.
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Gas engine
·add. ·- A kind of internal-combustion engine (which see) using fixed gas; also, broadly, any intern...
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Otto engine
·add. ·- An engine using the Otto cycle.
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Radial engine
·add. ·- An engine, usually an internal-combustion engine of a certain type (the radial type) having...
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Radiant engine
·add. ·- A semiradial engine. ·see Radial engine, above.
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Semiradial engine
·add. ·- ·see Radial engine, above.
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Steam engine
·- An engine moved by steam.
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Tandem engine
·add. ·- A steam engine having two or more steam cylinders in line, with a common piston rod.
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Trunk engine
·add. ·- An engine having a trunk piston, as most internal combustion engines.
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Water engine
·- An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishi...
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blast-engine
A ventilating machine to draw off the foul air from the hold of a ship, and induce a current of fres...
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donkey-engine
An auxiliary steam-engine for feeding the boilers of the principal engine when they are stopped; or ...
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engine, marine
(See marine engines.)
Engine was of old a military machine for warfare.
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engine-bearers
Sleepers, or pieces of timber placed between the keelson, in a steamer, and the boilers of the steam...
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trunk-engine
A direct-acting steam-engine, in which the end of the connecting-rod is attached to the bottom of a ...
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Air bed
·- A sack or matters inflated with air, and used as a bed.
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Air bladder
·- A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.
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Air brake
·- A railway brake operated by condensed air.
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Air brush
·add. ·- A kind of atomizer for applying liquid coloring matter in a spray by compressed air.
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Air cell
·- A cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only.
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Air chamber
·- A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant.
II. Air chamber ·- A cavity containi...
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Air cock
·- A faucet to allow escape of air.
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Air cooling
·add. ·- In gasoline-engine motor vehicles, the cooling of the cylinder by increasing its radiating ...
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Air drill
·- A drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air; a pneumatic drill.
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Air gap
·add. ·- An air-filled gap in a magnetic or electric circuit; specif., in a dynamo or motor, the spa...
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Air gas
·- ·see under <<Gas>>.
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Air gun
·- A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air ...
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Air hole
·- A fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air; a blowhole.
II. Air hole ·- A hole to admit o...
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Air jacket
·- A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoy...
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Air level
·- Spirit level. ·see <<Level>>.
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Air line
·add. ·- A path through the air made easy for aerial navigation by steady winds.
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Air pipe
·- A pipe for the passage of air; ·esp. a ventilating pipe.
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Air plant
·- A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an <<Aerophyte>>.
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Air poise
·- An instrument to measure the weight of air.
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Air pump
·- A pump used to exhaust from a condenser the condensed steam, the water used for condensing, and a...
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Air sac
·- One of the spaces in different parts of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connec...
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Air shaft
·- A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.
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Air stove
·- A stove for heating a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and...
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Air vessel
·- A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds,...
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Air-built
·adj Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle.
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Air-drawn
·adj Drawn in air; imaginary.
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Air-slacked
·adj Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.
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Air-tight
·noun A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off.
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Liquid air
·add. ·- A transparent limpid liquid, slightly blue in color, consisting of a mixture of liquefied o...
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Open-air
·adj Taking place in the open air; outdoor; as, an open-air game or meeting.
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air-bladder
A vesicle containing gas, situated immediately beneath the spinal column in most fish, and often com...
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air-braving
Defying the winds.
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air-cone
in the marine engine, is to receive the gases which enter the hot-well from the air-pump, where, aft...
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air-funnel
A cavity formed by omission of a timber in the upper works of a vessel, to admit fresh air into the ...
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air-gun
A silent weapon, which propels bullets by the expansive force of air only.
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air-jacket
A leathern garment furnished with inflated bladders, to buoy the wearer up in the water. (See ayr.)
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air-pipes
Funnels for clearing ships' holds of foul air, on the principle of the rarefying power of heat.
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air-ports
Large scuttles in ships' bows for the admission of air, when the other ports are down. The Americans...
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air-pump
An apparatus to remove the water and gases accumulating in the condenser while the engine is at work...
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air-scuttles
The same as air-ports.
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air-shafts
Vertical holes made in mining, to supply the adits with fresh air. Wooden shafts are sometimes adopt...
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foul air
May be generated by circumstances beyond control: decomposing fungi, timber injected with coal tar, ...
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Engine-type generator
·add. ·- A generator having its revolving part carried on the shaft of the driving engine.
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atmospheric or single-action steam-engine
A condensing machine, in which the downward stroke of the piston is performed by the pressure of the...
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direct-acting engine
A steam engine in which the connecting rod is led at once from the head of the piston to the crank, ...
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double-acting engine
One in which the steam acts upon the piston against a vacuum, both in the upward and downward moveme...
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engine-room telegraph
A dial-contrivance by which the officer on deck can communicate with the engineer below.
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non-condensing engine
A high-pressure steam-engine.
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oscillating marine-engine
A steam-engine where the top of the piston-rod is coupled with the crank, and the piston-rod moves b...
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single-action engine
See atmospheric steam-engine.
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air and exercise
He has had air and exercise, i.e. he has been whipped at the cart's tail; or, as it is generally, th...
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single-action steam-engine
See atmospheric steam-engine
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Hole in the air
·add. ·- = Air hole, above.
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cranks of a marine engine
; eccentric, as in a turning-lathe. The bend or knee pinned on the shafts, by which they are moved r...
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frame of the marine steam-engine
, is the strong supporter of the paddle-shafts and intermediate shaft; it rests on columns, and is f...
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putting a steam-engine in gear
This is said when the gab of the eccentric rod is allowed to fall upon its stud on the gab-lever.
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throwing a steam-engine out of gear
Disconnecting the eccentric rod from the gab-lever.
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