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Crossbeam :: Crossbeam (n.) A girder.

Beamy :: Beamy (a.) Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy.

Effulge :: Effulge (v. t.) To cause to shine with abundance of light; to radiate; to beam.

Gleamy :: Gleamy (a.) Darting beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating.

Dispread :: Dispread (v. t.) To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams..

Trammel :: Trammel (n.) A beam compass. See under Beam.

Quickbeam :: Quickbeam (n.) See Quicken tree.

Beamful :: Beamful (a.) Beamy; radiant.

Eradiate :: Eradiate (v. i.) To shoot forth, as rays of light; to beam; to radiate..

Gain :: Gain (n.) A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam..

Beam :: Beam (n.) The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another..

Stanchion :: Stanchion (n.) Any upright post or beam used as a support, as for the deck, the quarter rails, awnings, etc..

Beamingly :: Beamingly (adv.) In a beaming manner; radiantly.

Couple-close :: Couple-close (n.) A pair of rafters framed together with a tie fixed at their feet, or with a collar beam..

Diaphragm :: Diaphragm (n.) A plate with an opening, which is generally circular, used in instruments to cut off marginal portions of a beam of light, as at the focus of a telescope..

Lumber :: Lumber (n.) Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber..

Contignation :: Contignation (n.) The act or process of framing together, or uniting, as beams in a fabric..

Quartering :: Quartering (a.) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object..

Counterbalance :: Counterbalance (n.) A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam..

Beam :: Beam (n.) The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended..

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