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Excurrent :: Excurrent (a.) Running or extending out; as, an excurrent midrib, one which projects beyond the apex of a leaf; an excurrent steam or trunk, one which continues to the top..

Team :: Team (v. t.) To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber..

Subsidies :: Subsidize (v. t.) To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line..

Scald :: Scald (n.) A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam..

Sponson :: Sponson (n.) One of the triangular platforms in front of, and abaft, the paddle boxes of a steamboat..

Cylinder :: Cylinder (n.) The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam.

Crosshead :: Crosshead (n.) A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead..

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below)..

Distribution :: Distribution (n.) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission..

Team :: Team (n.) A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter..

Haw :: Haw (v. t.) To cause to turn, as a team, to the near side, or toward the driver; as, to haw a team of oxen..

Ram :: Ram (n.) The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like..

Reeky :: Reeky (a.) Soiled with smoke or steam; smoky; foul.

Pipe :: Pipe (n.) Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc..

Patent :: Patent (a.) Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf..

Lag :: Lag (v. t.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4..

Cut-off :: Cut-off (n.) The valve gearing or mechanism by which steam is cut off from entering the cylinder of a steam engine after a definite point in a stroke, so as to allow the remainder of the stroke to be made by the expansive force of the steam already let in. See Expansion gear, under Expansion..

Wiredraw :: Wiredraw (v. t.) To pass, or to draw off, (as steam) through narrow ports, or the like, thus reducing its pressure or force by friction..

Gauge :: Gauge (n.) Any instrument or apparatus for measuring the state of a phenomenon, or for ascertaining its numerical elements at any moment; -- usually applied to some particular instrument; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge..

Gee :: Gee (v. i.) To turn to the off side, or from the driver (i.e., in the United States, to the right side); -- said of cattle, or a team; used most frequently in the imperative, often with off, by drivers of oxen, in directing their teams, and opposed to haw, or hoi..

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