Beam
(n.) Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use. |
Beam
(n.) One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship. |
Beam
(n.) The width of a vessel |
Beam
(n.) The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended. |
Beam
(n.) The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches. |
Beam
(n.) The pole of a carriage. |
Beam
(n.) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving |
Beam
(n.) The straight part or shank of an anchor. |
Beam
(n.) The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it. |
Beam
(n.) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft |
Beam
(n.) A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body |
Beam
(n.) Fig.: A ray |
Beam
(n.) One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk |
Beam
(v. t.) To send forth |
Beam
(v. i.) To emit beams of light. |
Beam tree
() A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple. |
Hammer-beam
(n.) A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam. |
Metric system
() See Metric, a. |
Rider
(n.) One who, or that which, rides. |
Rider
(n.) Formerly, an agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders |
Rider
(n.) One who breaks or manages a horse. |
Rider
(n.) An addition or amendment to a manuscript or other document, which is attached on a separate piece of paper |
Rider
(n.) A problem of more than usual difficulty added to another on an examination paper. |
Rider
(n.) A Dutch gold coin having the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it. |
Rider
(n.) Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it. |
Rider
(n.) An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen her frame. |
Rider
(n.) The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold. |
Rider
(n.) A small forked weight which straddles the beam of a balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the weight on a steelyard. |
Rider
(n.) A robber. |
System
(n.) An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific |
System
(n.) Hence, the whole scheme of created things regarded as forming one complete plan of whole |
System
(n.) Regular method or order |
System
(n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n. |
System
(n.) An assemblage of parts or organs, either in animal or plant, essential to the performance of some particular function or functions which as a rule are of greater complexity than those manifested by a single organ |
System
(n.) One of the stellate or irregular clusters of intimately united zooids which are imbedded in, or scattered over, the surface of the common tissue of many compound ascidians. |