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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 3 1 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
Invented at Vincennes by M. Minie about 1833. See bullet, c, Fig. 969. Min′i-mum Ther-mom′e-ter. A thermometer constructed to register the lowest point reached between observations; as Rutherford's or Six's. See thermometer. Min′ing Ap-pli′an-ces and terms. See under the following heads: — Adit.Dead-ground. Anticlinal line.Deads. Arch.Dean. Astel.Dike. Astyllen.Dip. Attle.Dip-head level. Auget.Down-cast, Back.Drift. Bank.Dropper. Bar.Drowned level. Barrow.Dums. Basset.Fang. Batch.Fanging. Bed.Fault. Bede.Flang. Bedway.Flookan. Bend.Floran. Blasting.Fluke. Blind level.Foge. Bonney.Gad. Bord.Gallery. Bottom-lift.Gangue. Bottoms.Ginging. Brace.Goaf. Branch.Gob. Brattice.Gobbing. Breast.Gold-mining. Brob.Gold-washer. Brood.Grain-tin. Bunch.Grapnel Burden.Griddle. Cage.Gunnie. Case.Gurnies. Cat-head.Hade. Cauf.Halvans. Caunter-lode.Hanging-side. Channeling-machine.Hard pyrites. Charger.Hard salt Cistern.Heading. Claying-bar.Hitch
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), O. (search)
resent form. Out′burst-bank. （Hydraulic Engineering.) The middle portion, as to elevation, of a sea embankment. The lower portion is the footing, and has a base of 5 to a hight of 1. The outburst has a base of 2 to 1 of hight, and is crowned with the swashbank, which has the same proportions and a level on top of 4 to 5 feet under ordinary circumstances, where it is not to be used as a road. Out′crop. （Mining-engineering.) The emergence of a stratum or seam at the surface. Basset. Out′er form. （Printing.) The form commencing with the first page of the sheet. It is usually worked off last. Out′fall. （Hydraulic Engineering.) The point of discharge for, or the embouchure of a drain, culvert, or sewer. Out′haul. （Nautical.) A rope used to extend the clew of a boom-sail. Out′keep-er. （Surveying.) A small dial-plate having an index turned by a milled head underneath, used with the surveyor's compass to keep tally in chainin