Bed rock () The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig. |
High-pressure (a.) Having or involving a pressure greatly exceeding that of the atmosphere |
High-pressure (a.) Fig.: Urgent |
Low-pressure (a.) Having, employing, or exerting, a low degree of pressure. |
Mass (n.) The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host. |
Mass (n.) The portions of the Mass usually set to music, considered as a musical composition |
Mass (v. i.) To celebrate Mass. |
Mass (n.) A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size |
Mass (n.) A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills |
Mass (n.) A large quantity |
Mass (n.) Bulk |
Mass (n.) The principal part |
Mass (n.) The quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume. |
Mass (v. t.) To form or collect into a mass |
Mountain (n.) A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land |
Mountain (n.) A range, chain, or group of such elevations |
Mountain (n.) A mountainlike mass |
Mountain (a.) Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains |
Mountain (a.) Like a mountain |
Poly-mountain (n.) Same as Poly, n. |
Poly-mountain (n.) The closely related Teucrium montanum, formerly called Polium montanum, a plant of Southern Europe. |
Poly-mountain (n.) The Bartsia alpina, a low purple-flowered herb of Europe. |
Pressure (n.) The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed |
Pressure (n.) A contrasting force or impulse of any kind |
Pressure (n.) Affliction |
Pressure (n.) Urgency |
Pressure (n.) Impression |
Pressure (n.) The action of a force against some obstacle or opposing force |
Rock (n.) See Roc. |
Rock (n.) A distaff used in spinning |
Rock (n.) A large concreted mass of stony material |
Rock (n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds. |
Rock (n.) That which resembles a rock in firmness |
Rock (n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock. |
Rock (n.) The striped bass. See under Bass. |
Rock (v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath |
Rock (v. t.) To move as in a cradle |
Rock (v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward |
Rock (v. i.) To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support |
Rock shaft () A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines |
Rock staff (v. i.) An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge. |