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A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock. Note: It consists of a chamber, containing air or a liquid, in which a piston , attached to the weight, falls freely until it enters

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A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock. Note: It consists of a chamber, containing air or a liquid, in which a piston , attached to the weight, falls freely until it enters a space from which the air or liquid can escape but slowly , when its fall is gradually checked. Note: A cataract of an engine is sometimes called a dashpot.

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  • FALLALS; FAL-LALS
    Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. Thackeray.
  • VALVE-SHELL
    Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
  • HYDRAULICON
    An ancient musical instrument played by the action of water; a water organ.
  • CHAMBERING
    Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
  • PREVENTATIVE
    That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
  • ENGINER
    A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines. Shak.
  • ENGINERY
    1. The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. Milton. 2. Engines, in general; instruments of war. Training his devilish enginery. Milton. 3. Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement. Shenstone.
  • FALLER
    A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, falls.
  • CHAMBERER
    1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger.
  • CONTAINMENT
    That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
  • SHOCKDOG
    See 1
  • HYDRAULICS
    That branch of science, or of engineering, which treats of fluids in motion, especially of water, its action in rivers and canals, the works and machinery for conducting or raising it, its use as a prime mover, and the like. Note: As a science,
  • CHAMBERED
    Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
  • FALLOW
    Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch , a small European bird, the wheatear . See Wheatear. (more info) vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith.
  • PISTON RING
    A spring packing ring, or any of several such rings, for a piston.
  • WEIGHTINESS
    The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
  • WEIGHTILY
    In a weighty manner.
  • LIQUIDATION
    The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated. To go into liquidation , to turn over to a trustee one's assets and accounts, in order that the several amounts of one's indebtedness be authoritatively ascertained, and that the
  • PREVENTABLE
    Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
  • PREVENTINGLY
    So as to prevent or hinder.
  • INEQUIVALVE; INEQUIVALVULAR
    Having unequal valves, as the shell of an oyster.
  • AIR ENGINE
    An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. Knight.
  • IMPREVENTABLE
    Not preventable; invitable.
  • THRYFALLOW
    To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
  • COUNTER WEIGHT
    A counterpoise.
  • UNFALLIBLE
    Infallible. Shak.
  • RADIANT ENGINE
    A semiradial engine. See Radial engine, above.
  • PILOT VALVE
    A small hand-operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand.
  • MULTIVALVE; MULTIVALVULAR
    Many-valved; having more than two valves; -- said of certain shells, as the chitons. (more info) 1. Having many valves.
  • UNLIQUIDATED
    Not liquidated; not exactly ascertained; not adjusted or settled. Unliquidated damages , penalties or damages not ascertained in money. Burrill.
  • IMPREVENTABILITY
    The state or quality of being impreventable.

 

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