Crane (n.) A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel. |
Crane (n.) A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck. |
Crane (n.) A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc. |
Crane (n.) An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire. |
Crane (n.) A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask. |
Crane (n.) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc., -- generally used in pairs. See Crotch, 2. |
Crane (v. t.) To cause to rise |
Crane (v. t.) To stretch, as a crane stretches its neck |
Crane (v. i.) to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better |
Crane's-bill (n.) The geranium |
Crane's-bill (n.) A pair of long-beaked forceps. |
Mobile (a.) Capable of being moved |
Mobile (a.) Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity |
Mobile (a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction |
Mobile (a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind |
Mobile (a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited |
Mobile (a.) The mob |
Primum mobile () In the Ptolemaic system, the outermost of the revolving concentric spheres constituting the universe, the motion of which was supposed to carry with it all the inclosed spheres with their planets in a daily revolution from east to west. See Crystalline heavens, under Crystalline. |
Water crane () A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive. |