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Bucket :: Bucket (n.) The valved piston of a lifting pump.

Valve-shell :: Valve-shell (n.) Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.

Handwheel :: Handwheel (n.) Any wheel worked by hand; esp., one the rim of which serves as the handle by which a valve, car brake, or other part is adjusted..

Four-way :: Four-way (a.) Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve..

Acephalous :: Acephalous (a.) Without a distinct head; -- a term applied to bivalve mollusks.

Ostracea :: Ostracea (n. pl.) A division of bivalve mollusks including the oysters and allied shells.

Cingulum :: Cingulum (n.) A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells.

Integropallial :: Integropallial (a.) Having the pallial line entire, or without a sinus, as certain bivalve shells..

Tridacna :: Tridacna (n.) A genus of very large marine bivalve shells found on the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species (T. gigas) often weighs four or five hundred pounds, and is sometimes used for baptismal fonts. Called also paw shell, and fountain shell..

Silique :: Silique (n.) An oblong or elongated seed vessel, consisting of two valves with a dissepiment between, and opening by sutures at either margin. The seeds are attached to both edges of the dissepiment, alternately upon each side of it..

Gyration :: Gyration (n.) One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.

Link Motion :: Link motion () A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very generally in locomotives and marine engines..

Dimyaria :: Dimyaria (n. pl.) An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve..

Trumpet :: Trumpet (n.) A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone..

Univalve :: Univalve (a.) Alt. of Univalve.

Brachiopoda :: Brachiopoda (n.) A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle..

Bivalve :: Bivalve (n.) A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.

Replum :: Replum (n.) The framework of some pods, as the cress, which remains after the valves drop off..

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo..

Solenacean :: Solenacean (n.) Any species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the family Solenidae.

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