Apollinaris water
() An effervescing alkaline mineral water used as a table beverage. It is obtained from a spring in Apollinarisburg, near Bonn. |
Bed screw
() A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies, and assisting in launching. |
Bed screw
() A long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of the adjacent side pieces. |
Breech screw
() A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore. |
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 |
Hindleys screw
() A screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into the teeth of which the screw is intended to work. It is named from the person who first used the form. |
Napha water
() A perfume distilled from orange flowers. |
Rose water
() Water tinctured with roses by distillation. |
Rose-water
(a.) Having the odor of rose water |
Screw
(n.) A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw |
Screw
(n.) Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something |
Screw
(n.) Anything shaped or acting like a screw |
Screw
(n.) A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels |
Screw
(n.) An extortioner |
Screw
(n.) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity |
Screw
(n.) A small packet of tobacco. |
Screw
(n.) An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance. |
Screw
(n.) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b)). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis. |
Screw
(n.) An amphipod crustacean |
Screw
(v. t.) To turn, as a screw |
Screw
(v. t.) To force |
Screw
(v. t.) Hence: To practice extortion upon |
Screw
(v. t.) To twist |
Screw
(v. t.) To examine rigidly, as a student |
Screw
(v. i.) To use violent mans in making exactions |
Screw
(v. i.) To turn one's self uneasily with a twisting motion |
Screw-cutting
(a.) Adapted for forming a screw by cutting |
Screw-driver
(n.) A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw. |
Selters water
() A mineral water from Sellers, in the district of Nassan, Germany, containing much free carbonic acid. |
Seltzer water
() See Selters water. |
Spurn-water
(n.) A channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water. |
Strong-water
(n.) An acid. |
Strong-water
(n.) Distilled or ardent spirits |
Surfeit-water
(n.) Water for the cure of surfeits. |
Tail-water
(n.) Water in a tailrace. |
Turbine
(n.) A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc. |
Vichy water
() A mineral water found at Vichy, France. It is essentially an effervescent solution of sodium, calcium, and magnetism carbonates, with sodium and potassium chlorides |
Water
(n.) The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc. |
Water
(n.) A body of water, standing or flowing |
Water
(n.) Any liquid secretion, humor, or the like, resembling water |
Water
(n.) A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance |
Water
(n.) The limpidity and luster of a precious stone, especially a diamond |
Water
(n.) A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc. See Water, v. t., 3, Damask, v. t., and Damaskeen. |
Water
(v. t.) An addition to the shares representing the capital of a stock company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or "diluted." |
Water
(v. t.) To wet or supply with water |
Water
(v. t.) To supply with water for drink |