Word Meanings - TRUNNIONED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Provided with trunnions; as, the trunnioned cylinder of an oscillating steam engine.
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- OSCILLATING
That oscillates; vibrating; swinging. Oscillating engine, a steam engine whose cylinder oscillates on trunnions instead of being permanently fixed in a perpendicular or other direction. Weale. - ENGINER
A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines. Shak. - ENGINERY
1. The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. Milton. 2. Engines, in general; instruments of war. Training his devilish enginery. Milton. 3. Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement. Shenstone. - PROVIDENCE
A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction. He that hath a numerous family, and many to provide for, needs a greater providence of God. Jer. Taylor. 4. Prudence in - OSCILLATING CURRENT
A current alternating in direction. - STEAM
smoke, odor; akin to D. stoom steam, perhaps originally, a pillar, or 1. The elastic, aƫriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor. 2. The mist formed by condensed vapor; - PROVIDORE
One who makes provision; a purveyor. De Foe. - OSCILLATOR
Any device for producing electric oscillations; esp., an apparatus for generating electric waves in a system of wireless telegraphy. An instrument for measuring rigidity by the torsional oscillations of a weighted wire. - STEAMBOAT
A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers. - CYLINDER
A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular. The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. - ENGINEMAN
A man who manages, or waits on, an engine. - STEAM ENGINE
An engine moved by steam. Note: In its most common forms its essential parts are a piston, a cylinder, and a valve gear. The piston works in the cylinder, to which steam is admitted by the action of the valve gear, and communicates motion to the - ENGINEER CORPS; CORPS OF ENGINEERS
In the United States army, the Corps of Engineers, a corps of officers and enlisted men consisting of one band and three battalions of engineers commanded by a brigadier general, whose title is Chief of Engineers. It has charge of the construction - PROVIDE
1. To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare. "Provide us all things necessary." Shak. 2. To supply; to afford; to contribute. Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit As the kind, - STEAMSHIP
A ship or seagoing vessel propelled by the power of steam; a steamer. - OSCILLATIVE
Tending to oscillate; vibratory. I. Taylor. - PROVIDENTLY
In a provident manner. - STEAMY
Consisting of, or resembling, steam; full of steam; vaporous; misty. Cowper. - STEAMINESS
The quality or condition of being steamy; vaporousness; mistness. - STEAMBOATING
The shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards. Knight. (more info) 1. The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats. - AIR ENGINE
An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. Knight. - RADIANT ENGINE
A semiradial engine. See Radial engine, above. - RADIAL ENGINE
An engine, usually an internal-combustion engine of a certain type having several cylinders arranged radially like the spokes of a complete wheel. The semiradial engine has radiating cylinders on only one side of the crank shaft. - SEMIRADIAL ENGINE
See ABOVE - IMPROVIDENTLY
In a improvident manner. "Improvidently rash." Drayton. - IMPROVIDED
Unforeseen; unexpected; not provided against; unprepared. All improvided for dread of death. E. Hall.