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Quadrant :: Quadrant (n.) An instrument for measuring altitudes, variously constructed and mounted for different specific uses in astronomy, surveying, gunnery, etc., consisting commonly of a graduated arc of 90¡, with an index or vernier, and either plain or telescopic sights, and usually having a plumb line or spirit level for fixing the vertical or horizontal direction..

Plumbagin :: Plumbagin (n.) A crystalline substance said to be found in the root of a certain plant of the Leadwort (Plumbago) family.

Bob :: Bob (n.) The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line..

Saturnism :: Saturnism (n.) Plumbism.

Plumb :: Plumb (n.) A little mass or weight of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction; a plummet; a plumb bob. See Plumb line, below..

Plumbum :: Plumbum (n.) The technical name of lead. See Lead.

Plumbic :: Plumbic (a.) Of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing, lead; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with plumbous compounds; as, plumbic oxide..

Plumb :: Plumb (v. t.) To seal with lead; as, to plumb a drainpipe..

Plumb :: Plumb (adv.) In a plumb direction; perpendicularly.

Wenona :: Wenona (n.) A sand snake (Charina plumbea) of Western North America, of the family Erycidae..

Plumbed :: Plumbed (imp. & p. p.) of Plum.

Plummet :: Plummet (n.) A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under Plumb, n..

Gimbals :: Gimbals (n.) A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first..

Plumbing :: Plumbing (n.) The art of casting and working in lead, and applying it to building purposes; especially, the business of furnishing, fitting, and repairing pipes for conducting water, sewage, etc..

Plumb :: Plumb (v. t.) To adjust by a plumb line; to cause to be perpendicular; as, to plumb a building or a wall..

Plumb :: Plumb (a.) Perpendicular; vertical; conforming the direction of a line attached to a plumb; as, the wall is plumb..

Graphite :: Graphite (n.) Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a trace on paper. It is used for pencils (improperly called lead pencils), for crucibles, and as a lubricator, etc. Often called plumbago or black lead..

Plumbago :: Plumbago (n.) Same as Graphite.

Plumber Block :: Plumber block () A pillow block.

Lead :: Lead (n.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide..

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