Apollinaris water
() An effervescing alkaline mineral water used as a table beverage. It is obtained from a spring in Apollinarisburg, near Bonn. |
Engineering
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Engineer |
Engineering
(n.) Originally, the art of managing engines |
Fresh-water
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt |
Fresh-water
(a.) Accustomed to sail on fresh water only |
Fresh-water
(a.) Unskilled |
Napha water
() A perfume distilled from orange flowers. |
Rack
(n.) Same as Arrack. |
Rack
(n.) The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton. |
Rack
(n.) A wreck |
Rack
(n.) Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky. |
Rack
(v. i.) To fly, as vapor or broken clouds. |
Rack
(v.) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body |
Rack
(n.) A fast amble. |
Rack
(v. t.) To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine. |
Rack
(a.) An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something. |
Rack
(a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated |
Rack
(a.) An instrument for bending a bow. |
Rack
(a.) A grate on which bacon is laid. |
Rack
(a.) A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts. |
Rack
(a.) A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display |
Rack
(a.) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes |
Rack
(a.) A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed. |
Rack
(a.) A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads. |
Rack
(a.) A distaff. |
Rack
(a.) A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it. |
Rack
(a.) That which is extorted |
Rack
(v. t.) To extend by the application of force |
Rack
(v. t.) To torment |
Rack
(v. t.) To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense |
Rack
(v. t.) To wash on a rack, as metals or ore. |
Rack
(v. t.) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc. |
Rack-rent
(n.) A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it |
Rack-rent
(v. t.) To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant. |
Rack-renter
(n.) One who is subjected to paying rack-rent. |
Rack-renter
(n.) One who exacts rack-rent. |
Rake
(n.) An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth. |
Rake
(n.) A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain |
Rake
(n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so |
Rake
(v. t.) To collect with a rake |
Rake
(v. t.) To collect or draw together with laborious industry |
Rake
(v. t.) To pass a rake over |
Rake
(v. t.) To search through |
Rake
(v. t.) To scrape or scratch across |
Rake
(v. t.) To enfilade |
Rake
(v. i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting |
Rake
(v. i.) To pass with violence or rapidity |
Rake
(n.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction |
Rake
(n.) the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel. |
Rake
(v. i.) To incline from a perpendicular direction |