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tment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aëroplane or flying machine.

serving the highest praise; most excellent; -- used of persons or things. "An admirable machine." "Admirable fortitude." Macaulay.

A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.

A power-driven, heavier-than-air flying machine.

A flying machine, or a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it.

Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight. The most affecting music is generally the most simple.

oft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.

Pertaining to an army marching, or to a train. [R.]

nautics) A small plane or surface capable of being manipulated by the pilot of a flying machine to preserve or destroy lateral balance; a hinged wing tip; a lateral stabilizing or balancing plane.

air to act as a spring for equalizing the flow of a liquid in a pump or other hydraulic machine.

A man who ascends or flies in an aircraft; a flying machine pilot.

Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Joel ii. 1.

Aroused to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty. The white pavilions rose and fell On the alarmed air. Longfellow.

A vestment of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.

A genus of perching birds, including the European kingfisher (Alcedo ispida). See Halcyon.

The act of tying together or attaching by some bond, or the state of being attached. [R.]

Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator; as, (a) (Metal Working)

One who, or that which, amalgamates. Specifically: A machine for separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing them in contact with a body of mercury with which they form an amalgam.

ng to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.

One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.