·noun The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.
·noun Laughing gas. II. Gas ·noun Any irrespirable aeriform fluid. III. Gas ·add. ·noun <<Gasoline...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything. II. Burner ·noun The part of a lamp, ...
1) A clap. The blowen tipped the swell a burner; the girl gave the gentleman a clap. 2) He is no bu...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
·- ·see under <<Gas>>. ...
·add. ·- A kind of internal-combustion engine (which see) using fixed gas; also, broadly, any intern...
·add. ·- A kind of oil gas extensively used for lighting railroad cars, which carry it in compressed...
A term jocularly applied to the newly-introduced breech-loading rifle. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fi...
·- A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) a...
·- ·see under Battery, and Burner. ...
·add. ·- A gas burner with a device for lighting by an electric spark. ...
·noun A circle or cluster of gas-burners for lighting and ventilating public buildings. ...