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Dart :: Dart (v. t.) To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams..

Sunbird :: Sunbeam (n.) A beam or ray of the sun.

Crossbeam :: Crossbeam (n.) A girder.

Corona :: Corona (n.) A peculiar phase of the aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle..

Spur :: Spur (n.) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut..

Beam :: Beam (n.) Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort..

Beaming :: Beaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bea.

Collar :: Collar (n.) A collar beam.

Truss :: Truss (n.) To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces..

Trestle :: Trestle (n.) A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like..

Ashlering :: Ashlering (n.) The short upright pieces between the floor beams and rafters in garrets. See Ashlar, 2..

Spurred :: Spur (n.) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam can not be placed.

Reflect :: Reflect (v. i.) To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or beams..

Beamless :: Beamless (a.) Not having a beam.

Heliostat :: Heliostat (n.) An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope..

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..

Strength :: Strength (n.) Power to resist force; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they endure the application of force without breaking or yielding; -- in this sense opposed to frangibility; as, the strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like..

Browpost :: Browpost (n.) A beam that goes across a building.

Sunday :: Sundart (n.) Sunbeam.

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

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