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Abridger
Abridger A*bridg"er, n.
One who abridges.
Bascule bridgeBascule Bas"cule, n. [F., a seesaw.]
In mechanics an apparatus on the principle of the seesaw, in
which one end rises as the other falls.
Bascule bridge, a counterpoise or balanced drawbridge,
which is opened by sinking the counterpoise and thus
lifting the footway into the air. Bateau bridgeBateau Ba*teau", n.; pl. Bateaux. [F. bateau, LL. batellus,
fr. battus, batus, boa, which agrees with AS. b[=a]t boat:
cf. W. bad boat. See Boat, n.]
A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the
Canadian lakes and rivers. [Written also, but less properly,
batteau.]
Bateau bridge, a floating bridge supported by bateaux. Bowstring bridgeBowstring Bow"string`, n.
1. The string of a bow.
2. A string used by the Turks for strangling offenders.
Bowstring bridge, a bridge formed of an arch of timber or
iron, often braced, the thrust of which is resisted by a
tie forming a chord of the arch.
Bowstring girder, an arched beam strengthened by a tie
connecting its two ends.
Bowstring hemp (Bot.), the tenacious fiber of the
Sanseviera Zeylanica, growing in India and Africa, from
which bowstrings are made. --Balfour. BridgeBridge Bridge (br[i^]j), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bridged
(br[i^]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Bridging.]
1. To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a
river.
Their simple engineering bridged with felled trees
the streams which could not be forded. --Palfrey.
2. To open or make a passage, as by a bridge.
Xerxes . . . over Hellespont Bridging his way,
Europe with Asia joined. --Milton.
3. To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; --
generally with over. Bridge whistWhist Whist, n.
Bridge whist. See Bridge, n., above.
Duplicate whist, a form of whist in playing which the hands
are preserved as dealt and played again by other players,
as when each side holds in the second round the cards
played by the opposing side in the first round.
Solo whist. See Solo whist, above. Whitecap White"cap`,
n.
A member of a self-appointed vigilance committee attempting
by lynch-law methods to drive away or coerce persons
obnoxious to it. Some early ones wore white hoods or masks.
[U. S.] -- White"cap`, v. -- White"cap`per, n. Bridgeboard
Bridgeboard Bridge"board`, n.
1. (Arch.) A notched board to which the treads and risers of
the steps of wooden stairs are fastened.
2. A board or plank used as a bridge.
BridgedBridge Bridge (br[i^]j), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bridged
(br[i^]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Bridging.]
1. To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a
river.
Their simple engineering bridged with felled trees
the streams which could not be forded. --Palfrey.
2. To open or make a passage, as by a bridge.
Xerxes . . . over Hellespont Bridging his way,
Europe with Asia joined. --Milton.
3. To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; --
generally with over. Bridgehead
Bridgehead Bridge"head`, n.
A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest
the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the
bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a
t[^e]te-de-pont.
BridgeingBridgeing Bridge"ing, n. (Arch.)
The system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to
distribute the weight.
Bridging joist. Same as Binding joist. Bridgeless
Bridgeless Bridge"less, a.
Having no bridge; not bridged.
Bridgepot
Bridgepot Bridge"pot`, n. (Mining)
The adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone spindle.
--Knight.
Bridgetree
Bridgetree Bridge"tree`, n. [Bridge + tree a beam.] (Mining)
The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a
grinding mill. --Knight.
Bridge-ward
Bridge-ward Bridge"-ward`, n.
1. A bridge keeper; a warden or a guard for a bridge. [Obs.]
--Sir W. Scott.
2. The principal ward of a key. --Knight.
Bridgey
Bridgey Bridge"y, a.
Full of bridges. [R.] --Sherwood.
BridgingBridge Bridge (br[i^]j), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bridged
(br[i^]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Bridging.]
1. To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a
river.
Their simple engineering bridged with felled trees
the streams which could not be forded. --Palfrey.
2. To open or make a passage, as by a bridge.
Xerxes . . . over Hellespont Bridging his way,
Europe with Asia joined. --Milton.
3. To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; --
generally with over. Bridging joistBridgeing Bridge"ing, n. (Arch.)
The system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to
distribute the weight.
Bridging joist. Same as Binding joist. Cantalever bridgeCantalever Can"ta*lev`er, n. [Cant an external angle + lever a
supporter of the roof timber of a house.] [Written also
cantaliver and cantilever.]
1. (Arch.) A bracket to support a balcony, a cornice, or the
like.
2. (Engin.) A projecting beam, truss, or bridge unsupported
at the outer end; one which overhangs.
Cantalever bridge, a bridge in which the principle of the
cantalever is applied. It is usually a trussed bridge,
composed of two portions reaching out from opposite banks,
and supported near the middle of their own length on piers
which they overhang, thus forming cantalevers which meet
over the space to be spanned or sustain a third portion,
to complete the connection. Cubbridge-head
Cubbridge-head Cub"bridge-head` (k?b"r?jj-h?d), n. (Naut.)
A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.
Drawbridge
Drawbridge Draw"bridge`, n.
A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be
raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or
hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a
town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal.
Note: The movable portion, or draw, is called, specifically,
a bascule, balance, or lifting bridge, a turning,
swivel, or swing bridge, or a rolling bridge, according
as it turns on a hinge vertically, or on a pivot
horizontally, or is pushed on rollers.
Floating bridgeFloating Float"ing, a.
1. Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a
wreck; floating motes in the air.
2. Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating
ribs in man and some other animals.
3. Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as,
floating capital; a floating debt.
Trade was at an end. Floating capital had been
withdrawn in great masses from the island.
--Macaulay.
Floating anchor (Naut.), a drag or sea anchor; drag sail.
Floating battery (Mil.), a battery erected on rafts or the
hulls of ships, chiefly for the defense of a coast or the
bombardment of a place.
Floating bridge.
(a) A bridge consisting of rafts or timber, with a floor
of plank, supported wholly by the water; a bateau
bridge. See Bateau.
(b) (Mil.) A kind of double bridge, the upper one
projecting beyond the lower one, and capable of being
moved forward by pulleys; -- used for carrying troops
over narrow moats in attacking the outworks of a fort.
(c) A kind of ferryboat which is guided and impelled by
means of chains which are anchored on each side of a
stream, and pass over wheels on the vessel, the wheels
being driven by stream power.
(d) The landing platform of a ferry dock.
Floating cartilage (Med.), a cartilage which moves freely
in the cavity of a joint, and often interferes with the
functions of the latter.
Floating dam.
(a) An anchored dam.
(b) A caisson used as a gate for a dry dock.
Floating derrick, a derrick on a float for river and harbor
use, in raising vessels, moving stone for harbor
improvements, etc.
Floating dock. (Naut.) See under Dock.
Floating harbor, a breakwater of cages or booms, anchored
and fastened together, and used as a protection to ships
riding at anchor to leeward. --Knight.
Floating heart (Bot.), a small aquatic plant (Limnanthemum
lacunosum) whose heart-shaped leaves float on the water
of American ponds.
Floating island, a dish for dessert, consisting of custard
with floating masses of whipped cream or white of eggs.
Floating kidney. (Med.) See Wandering kidney, under
Wandering.
Floating light, a light shown at the masthead of a vessel
moored over sunken rocks, shoals, etc., to warn mariners
of danger; a light-ship; also, a light erected on a buoy
or floating stage.
Floating liver. (Med.) See Wandering liver, under
Wandering.
Floating pier, a landing stage or pier which rises and
falls with the tide.
Floating ribs (Anat.), the lower or posterior ribs which
are not connected with the others in front; in man they
are the last two pairs.
Floating screed (Plastering), a strip of plastering first
laid on, to serve as a guide for the thickness of the
coat.
Floating threads (Weaving), threads which span several
other threads without being interwoven with them, in a
woven fabric. Flue bridgeFlue Flue, n. [Cf. OF. flue a flowing, fr. fluer to flow, fr.
L. fluere (cf. Fluent); a perh. a corruption of E. flute.]
An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a
current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage; esp.:
(a) A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying
flame and smoke to the outer air.
(b) A passage way for conducting a current of fresh, foul, or
heated air from one place to another.
(c) (Steam Boiler) A pipe or passage for conveying flame and
hot gases through surrounding water in a boiler; --
distinguished from a tube which holds water and is
surrounded by fire. Small flues are called fire tubes or
simply tubes.
Flue boiler. See under Boiler.
Flue bridge, the separating low wall between the flues and
the laboratory of a reverberatory furnace.
Flue plate (Steam Boiler), a plate to which the ends of the
flues are fastened; -- called also flue sheet, tube
sheet, and tube plate.
Flue surface (Steam Boiler), the aggregate surface of flues
exposed to flame or the hot gases. Footbridge
Footbridge Foot"bridge`, n.
A narrow bridge for foot passengers only.
Furnace bridgeFurnace Fur"nace, n. [OE. fornais, forneis, OF. fornaise, F.
fournaise, from L. fornax; akin to furnus oven, and prob. to
E. forceps.]
1. An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the
combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting
metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as,
an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a
boiler furnace, etc.
Note: Furnaces are classified as wind or air. furnaces when
the fire is urged only by the natural draught; as blast
furnaces, when the fire is urged by the injection
artificially of a forcible current of air; and as
reverberatory furnaces, when the flame, in passing to
the chimney, is thrown down by a low arched roof upon
the materials operated upon.
2. A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial;
severe experience or discipline. --Deut. iv. 20.
Bustamente furnace, a shaft furnace for roasting
quicksilver ores.
Furnace bridge, Same as Bridge wall. See Bridge, n., 5.
Furnace cadmiam or cadmia, the oxide of zinc which
accumulates in the chimneys of furnaces smelting
zinciferous ores. --Raymond.
Furnace hoist (Iron Manuf.), a lift for raising ore, coal,
etc., to the mouth of a blast furnace. Girder bridgeGirder Gird"er, n. [From Gird to encircle.]
1. One who, or that which, girds.
2. (Arch. & Engin.) A main beam; a stright, horizontal beam
to span an opening or carry weight, such as ends of floor
beams, etc.; hence, a framed or built-up member
discharging the same office, technically called a compound
girder. See Illusts. of Frame, and Doubleframed floor,
under Double.
Bowstring girder, Box girder, etc. See under Bowstring,
Box, etc.
Girder bridge. See under Bridge.
Lattice girder, a girder consisting of longitudinal bars
united by diagonal crossing bars.
Half-lattice girder, a girder consisting of horizontal
upper and lower bars connected by a series of diagonal
bars sloping alternately in opposite directions so as to
divide the space between the bars into a series of
triangles. --Knight.
Sandwich girder, a girder consisting of two parallel wooden
beams, between which is an iron plate, the whole clamped
together by iron bolts. Hoist bridgeHoist Hoist, n.
1. That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for
lifting goods.
2. The act of hoisting; a lift. [Collog.]
3. (Naut.)
(a) The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the
fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff.
(b) The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or
stay. --Totten.
Hoist bridge, a drawbridge that is lifted instead of being
swung or drawn aside. Lattice bridgeLattice Lat"tice, n. [OE. latis, F. lattis lathwork, fr. latte
lath. See Latten, 1st Lath.]
1. Any work of wood or metal, made by crossing laths, or thin
strips, and forming a network; as, the lattice of a
window; -- called also latticework.
The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and
cried through the lattice. --Judg. v. 28.
2. (Her.) The representation of a piece of latticework used
as a bearing, the bands being vertical and horizontal.
Lattice bridge, a bridge supported by lattice girders, or
latticework trusses.
Lattice girder (Arch.), a girder of which the wed consists
of diagonal pieces crossing each other in the manner of
latticework.
Lattice plant (Bot.), an aquatic plant of Madagascar
(Ouvirandra fenestralis), whose leaves have interstices
between their ribs and cross veins, so as to resemble
latticework. A second species is O. Berneriana. The
genus is merged in Aponogeton by recent authors. Leg bridge
Leg bridge Leg bridge
A type of bridge for small spans in which the floor girders
are rigidly secured at their extremities to supporting steel
legs, driven into the round as piling, or resting on
mudsills.
Lift bridge 4. That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is
lifted; as:
(a) A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
(b) A handle.
(c) An exercising machine.
5. A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in
canals.
6. A lift gate. See Lift gate, below. [Prov. Eng.]
7. (Naut.) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity
of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end
of the yard.
8. (Mach.) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
9. (Shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel.
10. (Horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance
during which the impulse is given. --Saunier.
Dead lift. See under Dead. --Swift.
Lift bridge, a kind of drawbridge, the movable part of
which is lifted, instead of being drawn aside.
Lift gate, a gate that is opened by lifting.
Lift hammer. See Tilt hammer.
Lift lock, a canal lock.
Lift pump, a lifting pump.
Lift tenter (Windmills), a governor for regulating the
speed by adjusting the sails, or for adjusting the action
of grinding machinery according to the speed.
Lift wall (Canal Lock), the cross wall at the head of the
lock. Oblique bridgeOblique Ob*lique", a. [F., fr. L. obliquus; ob (see Ob-) +
liquis oblique; cf. licinus bent upward, Gr ? slanting.]
[Written also oblike.]
1. Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at
right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined.
It has a direction oblique to that of the former
motion. --Cheyne.
2. Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence,
disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister.
The love we bear our friends . . . Hath in it
certain oblique ends. --Drayton.
This mode of oblique research, when a more direct
one is denied, we find to be the only one in our
power. --De Quincey.
Then would be closed the restless, oblique eye. That
looks for evil, like a treacherous spy. --Wordworth.
3. Not direct in descent; not following the line of father
and son; collateral.
His natural affection in a direct line was strong,
in an oblique but weak. --Baker.
Oblique angle, Oblique ascension, etc. See under
Angle,Ascension, etc.
Oblique arch (Arch.), an arch whose jambs are not at right
angles with the face, and whose intrados is in consequence
askew.
Oblique bridge, a skew bridge. See under Bridge, n.
Oblique case (Gram.), any case except the nominative. See
Case, n.
Oblique circle (Projection), a circle whose plane is
oblique to the axis of the primitive plane.
Oblique fire (Mil.), a fire the direction of which is not
perpendicular to the line fired at.
Oblique flank (Fort.), that part of the curtain whence the
fire of the opposite bastion may be discovered. --Wilhelm.
Oblique leaf. (Bot.)
(a) A leaf twisted or inclined from the normal position.
(b) A leaf having one half different from the other.
Oblique line (Geom.), a line that, meeting or tending to
meet another, makes oblique angles with it.
Oblique motion (Mus.), a kind of motion or progression in
which one part ascends or descends, while the other
prolongs or repeats the same tone, as in the accompanying
example.
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