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Third rail
·add. ·- An electric railway using such a rail.
II. Third rail ·add. ·- The third rail used in the ...
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Third
·noun The sixtieth part of a second of time.
II. Third ·noun The third tone of the scale; the media...
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Rail
·vt To rail at.
II. Rail ·vt To range in a line.
III. Rail ·vt To move or influence by railing.
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rail
n.
common English birdname. There aremany varieties in New Zealand and Australia, especially in the...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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rail
A piece of timber, cleft, hewed, or sawed, inserted in upright posts for fencing. The common rails a...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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rail
a revel, a country wake. Devon.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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System
·noun The collection of staves which form a full score. ·see <<Score>>, ·noun.
II. System ·noun Reg...
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system
The method of disposing the correlative parts of a fortification, proposed variously by many eminent...
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Third-borough
·noun An under constable.
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Third-penny
·noun A third part of the profits of fines and penalties imposed at the country court, which was amo...
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T rail
·- ·see under <<T>>.
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Water rail
·- Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus ...
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slip-rail
n.
part of a fence so fitted that itcan be removed so as to serve as a gate. Used also for thegatew...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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weka, rail
n.
See weka.
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to rail it
To travel by rail-road.
From Petersburgh I railed it through the North Carolina pitch, tar, turpent...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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rail-car
A car for transporting passengers on rail-roads.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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bow-rail
A rail round the bows.
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breast-rail
The upper rail of the balcony; formerly it was applied to a railing in front of the quarter-deck, an...
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false rail
A thin plank fayed at the head-rails as a strengthener.
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forecastle-rail
The rail extended on stanchions across the after-part of the forecastle-deck in some ships.
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pedestal-rail
A rail about two inches thick, wrought over the foot-space rail, and in which there is a groove to s...
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sheer-rail
The wrought-rail generally placed well with the sheer or top-timber line; the narrow ornamental moul...
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top-rail
A rail supported on stanchions across the after-part of each of a ship's tops.
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waist-rail
The channel-rail or moulding of the ship's side.
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Ardois system
·add. ·- A widely used system of electric night signals in which a series of double electric lamps (...
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Autokinetic system
·add. ·- In fire-alarm telegraphy, a system so arranged that when one alarm is being transmitted, no...
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Automixte system
·add. ·- A system (devised by Henri Pieper, a Belgian) of driving automobiles employing a gasoline e...
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Bertillon system
·add. ·- A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropomet...
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Block system
·add. ·- A system by which the track is divided into short sections, as of three or four miles, and ...
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Cascade system
·add. ·- A system or method of connecting and operating two induction motors so that the primary cir...
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Case system
·add. ·- The system of teaching law in which the instruction is primarily a historical and inductive...
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Chautauqua system
(of education) ·add. ·- The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools a...
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Conduit system
·add. ·- A system of electric traction, ·esp. for light railways, in which the actuating current pas...
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Continental system
·add. ·- The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continen...
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Contract system
·add. ·- The sweating system.
II. Contract system ·add. ·- The system of employing convicts by sell...
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Crofton system
·add. ·- A system of prison discipline employing for consecutive periods cellular confinement, assoc...
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Delsarte system
·add. ·- A system of calisthenics patterned on the theories of Fran/ois Delsarte (1811 - 71), a Fren...
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Ganz system
·add. ·- A haulage system for canal boats, in which an electric locomotive running on a monorail has...
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Marconi system
·add. ·- A system or wireless telegraphy developed by G. Marconi, an Italian physicist, in which Her...
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Metric system
·- ·see <<Metric>>, ·adj.
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Tandem system
·add. ·- = Cascade system.
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Torrens system
·add. ·- A system of registration of titles to land (as distinct from registration of deeds) introdu...
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graham system
A system of dietetics recommended by Sylvester Graham, a lecturer of some celebrity on temperance an...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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binary system
When two stars forming a double-star are found to revolve about each other.
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copernican system
The Pythagorean system of the universe, revived by Copernicus in the sixteenth century, and now conf...
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solar system
The sun, planets, and comets, which are assumed to form a system, independent of the surrounding fix...
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ternary system
Three stars in close proximity, and found to be in physical connection, as, for instance, ζ Cancri.
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warehousing system
The use of bonding places under charge of officers of the customs, in which goods may be deposited, ...
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foot-space-rail
The rail that terminates the foot of the balcony, in which the balusters step, if there be no pedest...
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John, Third Epistle of
Is addressed to Caius, or Gaius, but whether to the Christian of that name in Macedonia (Acts 19: 29...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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post-and-rail tea
slang name for strong bush-tea: socalled because large bits of the tea, or supposed tea, floatabout ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Bell system of control
·add. ·- ·see <<Cloche>>.
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system of the universe
See copernican system.
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Three-torque system of control
·add. ·- Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three...
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John, The Second And Third Epistles Of
The second epistle is addressed to an individual woman. One who had children, and a sister and niece...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary