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Hinge :: Hinge (n.) The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on..

Bivalve :: Bivalve (n.) A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca..

Pintle :: Pintle (n.) The pivot pin of a hinge.

Lyopomata :: Lyopomata (n. pl.) An order of brachiopods, in which the valves of shell are not articulated by a hinge. It includes the Lingula, Discina, and allied forms..

Whinger :: Whinger (n.) A kind of hanger or sword used as a knife at meals and as a weapon.

Joint :: "Joint (n.) A joining of two things or parts so as to admit of motion; an articulation, whether movable or not; a hinge; as, the knee joint; a node or joint of a stem; a ball and socket joint. See Articulation..

Sag :: Sag (v. i.) To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges..

Porthook :: Porthook (n.) One of the iron hooks to which the port hinges are attached.

Unhinge :: Unhinge (v. t.) To take from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door..

Hinged :: Hinged (imp. & p. p.) of Hing.

Umbo :: Umbo (n.) One of the lateral prominence just above the hinge of a bivalve shell.

Anodon :: Anodon (n.) A genus of fresh-water bivalves, having no teeth at the hinge..

Hook :: Hook (n.) That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns..

Unhinge :: Unhinge (v. t.) To render unstable or wavering; to unsettle; as, to unhinge one's mind or opinions; to unhinge the nerves..

Butt Hinge :: Butt hinge () See 1st Butt, 10..

Unhingement :: Unhingement (n.) The act unhinging, or the state of being unhinged..

Cardo :: Cardo (n.) The hinge of a bivalve shell.

Testicardines :: Testicardines (n. pl.) A division of brachiopods including those which have a calcareous shell furnished with a hinge and hinge teeth. Terebratula and Spirifer are examples.

Gudgeon :: Gudgeon (n.) The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a horizontal..

Hinge :: Hinge (v. t.) To bend.

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