Almond furnace
() A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter. |
Ash-furnace
(n.) Alt. of Ash-oven |
Balanced
(imp. & p. p.) of Balance |
Barrel
(n.) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. |
Barrel
(n.) The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31/ gallons |
Barrel
(n.) A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case |
Barrel
(n.) A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged. |
Barrel
(n.) A jar. |
Barrel
(n.) The hollow basal part of a feather. |
Barrel
(v. t.) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels. |
Boiler
(n.) One who boils. |
Boiler
(n.) A vessel in which any thing is boiled. |
Boiler
(n.) A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes. |
Bottom
(n.) The lowest part of anything |
Bottom
(n.) The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold |
Bottom
(n.) That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense |
Bottom
(n.) The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea. |
Bottom
(n.) The fundament |
Bottom
(n.) An abyss. |
Bottom
(n.) Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river |
Bottom
(n.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water |
Bottom
(n.) Power of endurance |
Bottom
(n.) Dregs or grounds |
Bottom
(a.) Of or pertaining to the bottom |
Bottom
(v. t.) To found or build upon |
Bottom
(v. t.) To furnish with a bottom |
Bottom
(v. t.) To reach or get to the bottom of. |
Bottom
(v. i.) To rest, as upon an ultimate support |
Bottom
(v. i.) To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder. |
Bottom
(n.) A ball or skein of thread |
Bottom
(v. t.) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread. |
Circulation
(n.) The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began. |
Circulation
(n.) The act of passing from place to place or person to person |
Circulation
(n.) Currency |
Circulation
(n.) The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated |
Circulation
(n.) The movement of the blood in the blood-vascular system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every living elementary constituent. Also, the movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants. |
Curb roof
() A roof having a double slope, or composed, on each side, of two parts which have unequal inclination |
Double
(a.) Twofold |
Double
(a.) Being in pairs |
Double
(a.) Divided into two |
Double
(a.) Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally double. |
Double
(adv.) Twice |
Double
(a.) To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like |
Double
(a.) To make of two thicknesses or folds by turning or bending together in the middle |
Double
(a.) To be the double of |
Double
(a.) To pass around or by |
Double
(a.) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two. |
Double
(v. i.) To be increased to twice the sum, number, quantity, length, or value |
Double
(v. i.) To return upon one's track |
Double
(v. i.) To play tricks |
| double fault | (tennis) two successive faults in serving resulting in the loss of the point |
| double stopping | stopping two strings and producing two notes at the same time |
draft
draught
drawing | the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling |
line-drive single
line single | a single resulting from a line drive |
line-drive double
line double | a double resulting from a line drive |
single
bingle | a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base |
double
two-base hit
two-bagger
two-baser | a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base, he hit a double to deep centerfield |
| barrel roll | a roll in which the plane follows a spiral course |
double-blind procedure
double-blind experiment
double-blind study | an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment, a double-blind procedure is used to guard against both experimenter bias and placebo effects |
rack
single-foot | a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately |
| circulation | the spread or transmission of something (as news or money) to a wider group or area |
| double leg circle | a gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast (with legs together) swings his legs in a circle while alternating hands on the pommels |
twin bill
doubleheader
double feature | two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day) |
| double dribble | an illegal dribble in basketball (the player uses both hands to dribble or the player starts to dribble a second time after coming to a stop) |
| double Dutch | the difficult version of jump rope in which players jump over two ropes that are swung in a crisscross manner by two turners |
| daily double | a single bet on two horse races in the same day |
| double reverse | (American football) a running play in which a first reverse is followed by a second reverse |
| double play | the act of getting two players out on one play |
crawl front crawl
Australian crawl | a swimming stroke, arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick |
single entry
single-entry bookkeeping | a simple bookkeeping system, transactions are entered in only one account |
double entry
double-entry bookkeeping | bookkeeper debits the transaction to one account and credits it to another |
double cross
doublerossing | an act of betrayal, he gave us the old double cross, I could no longer tolerate his impudent doublerossing |
duplicity
double-dealing | acting in bad faith, deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another |
| double blind | a test procedure in which the identity of those receiving the intervention is concealed from both the administrators and the subjects until after the test is completed, designed to reduce or eliminate bias in the results |
front-porch campaigning
front-porch campaign | a campaign in which the candidate makes speeches but does not travel, William McKinley's dignified front-porch campaign won him the presidency in , her approach was the opposite of a passive front-porch campaign |
| doubling double | raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of , I decided his double was a bluff |
gulp
draft draught swig | a large and hurried swallow, he finished it at a single gulp |
| double take | a delayed reaction indicating surprise |
| industrial arts | a course in the methods of using tools and machinery as taught in secondary schools and technical schools |
industrialization
industrialisation
industrial enterprise | the development of industry on an extensive scale |
| single combat | a fight between two people, in all armies there were officers who needed to prove their bravery by single combat |
| double jeopardy | the prosecution of a defendant for a criminal offense for which he has already been tried, prohibited in the fifth amendment to the United States Constitution |
bottom-feeder
bottom-dweller | a fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water |
| bottom-feeder | a scavenger that feeds low on the food chain |
| bottom lurkers | a fish that lurks on the bottom of a body of water |
blue whale
sulfur bottom
Balaenoptera musculus | largest mammal ever known, bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere |
black rat
roof rat
Rattus rattus | common household pest originally from Asia that has spread worldwide |
draft horse
draught horse
dray horse | horse adapted for drawing heavy loads |
groundfish
bottom fish | fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder) |
a ashcan
trash can
garbage can
wastebin
ash bin
ash-bin
ashbin
dustbin
trash barrel
trash bin | a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected |
auxiliary boiler
donkey boiler | (nautical) an extra boiler (as a ship's boiler that is used while the ship is in port) |
barrel
cask | a cylindrical container that holds liquids |
| barrel gun barrel | a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired |
barrel knot
blood knot | a knot used for tying fishing leaders together, the ends of the two leaders are wrapped around each other two or three times |
barrel organ
grind organ
hand organ
hurdy gurdy
hurdy-gurdy
street organ | a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs |
| barrel vault | the simplest form of vault, a single continuous arch |
bass fiddle
bass viol bull fiddle
double bass
contrabass
string bass | largest and lowest member of the violin family |
beer barrel
beer keg | a barrel that holds beer |
| blast furnace | a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores, combustion is intensified by a blast of air |
boiler
steam boiler | sealed vessel where water is converted to steam |