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The act of inciting or moving to action.

he plane of the horizon; a sloping plane. When used to produce pressure, or as a means of moving bodies, it is one of the mechanical powers, so called. (b) (Railroad & Canal) An inclined portion of track, on which trains or boats are raised or lowered from one level to another.

as for a steam boiler; an apparatus or instrument for showing the working of a machine or moving part; as:

Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert.

Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents. -- adv.

Animating; cheering; moving; exhilarating; as, an inspiring or scene.

An inward stroke; specif., in a steam or other engine, a stroke in which the piston is moving away from the crank shaft; -- opposed to outstroke.

to be capable of extension under the hammer; also, specif., a kind of iron produced by removing a portion of the carbon or other impurities from cast iron, rendering it less brittle, and to some extent malleable. -- Meteoric iron (Chem.), iron forming a large, and often the chief, ingredient of meteorites. It invaria…

To make, or tend to make (the motion of a moving body), uniform in rate of rotation, or in frequency of vibration.

A method of moving a fleet from one formation to another, the direction usually being changed eight points (90º), by means of paths of equal length for each ship. It is prohibited in the United States navy.

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house.

eddler. The king's own courts were then itinerant, being kept in the king's palace, and removing with his household in those royal progresses which he continually made. Blackstone.

A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, cap…

A frequent tossing or moving of the body; restlessness, as in delirium. Dunglison. Jactitation of marriage (Eng. Eccl. Law), a giving out or boasting by a party that he or she is married to another, whereby a common reputation of their matrimony may ensue. Blackstone.

Moving by jerks and starts; characterized by abrupt transitions; as, a jerky vehicle; a jerky style.

To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts.

The operation of removing a cataract by thrusting a needle through the cornea of the eye, and breaking up the opaque mass.

Moving or causing motion; motory; active, as opposed to latent. Kinetic energy. See Energy, n. 4.

uction of animated pictures, in which a film carrying successive instantaneous views of a moving scene travels uniformly through the field of a magnifying glass. The observer sees each picture, momentarily, through a slit in a revolving disk, and these glimpses, blended by persistence of vision, give the impression of…

That branch of physics which treats of the laws of motion, or of moving bodies.