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An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it. Compound lever, a machine consisting of two or more levers acting upon each other. -- Lever escapement. See Escapement. -- Lever jack. See Jack, n., 5. -- Lever watch, a watch having a vibrating lever to connect the action of the escape…

livers it through a spout; a lift pump. -- Lifting rod, a vertical rod lifted by a rock shaft, and imparting motion to a puppet valve; -- used in the engines of river steamboats. -- Lifting sail (Naut.), one which tends to lift a vessel's bow out of water, as jibs and square foresails.

The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage. [Prov. Eng.]

The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called also platt. Raymond.

The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.

A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.

the reign of Antiochus IV., 168-161 B. C., which led to a period of freedom for Israel. Schaff-Herzog.

race. (b) (Naut.) The brace attached to the main yard. -- Main center (Steam Engine), a shaft upon which a working beam or side lever swings. -- Main chance. See under Chance. -- Main couple (Arch.), the principal truss in a roof. -- Main deck (Naut.), the deck next below the spar deck; the principal deck. -- Main…

ican (U. gracilis); -- called also bullhead. (b) A small bird, as the gold-crest, chiff- chaff, and long-tailed tit. [Prov. Eng.]

The shafting, gearing, and other driving machinery of mils.

To cause to seem to be a miracle. [R.] Shaftesbury.

Of or pertaining to miscellanies. Shaftesbury. -- n.

The size of some one part, as the diameter of semi-diameter of the base of a shaft, taken as a unit of measure by which the proportions of the other parts of the composition are regulated. Generally, for columns, the semi-diameter is taken, and divided into a certain number of parts, called minutes (see Minute), though…

nd a driving motor mechanically connected, usually on a common bedplate and with the two shafts directly coupled or combined into a single shaft.

-- Mule pulley (Mach.), an idle pulley for guiding a belt which transmits motion between shafts that are not parallel. -- Mule twist, cotton yarn in cops, as spun on a mule; -- in distinction from yarn spun on a throstle frame.

good piece, the painters say, must have good muscling, as well as coloring and drapery. Shaftesbury.

the end of an object, formed by a groove around it; as, a neck forming the journal of a shaft.

A small convex molding surrounding a column at the jinction of the shaft and capital. Weale.

e heart can not possibly remain neutral, but constantly takes part one way or the other. Shaftesbury.

One of the handles which project from a scythe snath; also, [Prov. Eng.], the shaft of a wagon.