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Animal :: Animal (n.) An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity..

High :: High (superl.) Elevated in character or quality, whether moral or intellectual; preeminent; honorable; as, high aims, or motives..

Cowl :: Cowl (n.) A wire cap for the smokestack of a locomotive.

Score :: Score (n.) Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.

Automaton :: Automaton (v. i.) A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc..

Gearing :: Gearing (n.) The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery..

Emotive :: Emotive (a.) Attended by, or having the character of, emotion..

Instance :: Instance (n.) That which is instant or urgent; motive.

For :: For (conj.) Since; because; introducing a reason of something before advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of an action related or a statement made. It is logically nearly equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by what has gone before..

Locomotive :: Locomotive (a.) Used in producing motion; as, the locomotive organs of an animal..

Truck :: Truck (v. i.) A swiveling carriage, consisting of a frame with one or more pairs of wheels and the necessary boxes, springs, etc., to carry and guide one end of a locomotive or a car; -- sometimes called bogie in England. Trucks usually have four or six wheels..

Motive :: Motive (n.) That which produces conception, invention, or creation in the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one..

Motivity :: Motivity (n.) The quality of being influenced by motives.

Timocracy :: Timocracy (n.) A state in which the love of honor is the ruling motive.

Prudentialist :: Prudentialist (n.) One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives..

Cab :: Cab (n.) The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station..

Stimulate :: Stimulate (v. t.) To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory..

Dolly :: Dolly (n.) A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc..

Bonnet :: Bonnet (n.) A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks..

Microvolt :: Microvolt (n.) A measure of electro-motive force; the millionth part of one volt.

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