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Air Engine :: Air engine () An engine driven by heated or by compressed air.

Lag :: Lag (n.) A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine..

Transit :: Transit (n.) An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit..

Bessemer Steel :: Bessemer steel () Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process..

Engineer :: Engineer (n.) One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager.

Supervise :: Supervise (v. t.) To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book..

Enginery :: Enginery (n.) Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement.

Engineered :: Engineered (imp. & p. p.) of Enginee.

Condenser :: Condenser (n.) An apparatus, separate from the cylinder, in which the exhaust steam is condensed by the action of cold water or air. See Illust. of Steam engine..

Counter :: Counter (v. t.) A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations..

High-pressure :: High-pressure (a.) Having or involving a pressure greatly exceeding that of the atmosphere; -- said of steam, air, water, etc., and of steam, air, or hydraulic engines, water wheels, etc..

Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels..

Receiver :: Receiver (n.) A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine..

Lag :: Lag (n.) The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing..

Thrower :: Thrower (n.) One who throws. Specifically: (a) One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. (b) One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.

Duty :: Duty (n.) The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States)..

Mangonel :: Mangonel (n.) A military engine formerly used for throwing stones and javelins.

Double-acting :: Double-acting (a.) Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a double-acting engine or pump..

Petrary :: Petrary (n.) An ancient war engine for hurling stones.

Line :: Line (n.) The proper relative position or adjustment of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working; as, the engine is in line or out of line..

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