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A cylindrical pipe fitting, having a number of lateral outlets, for connecting one pipe with several others.

er operated by an elastic metal diaphragm which closes a tube connected with the engine cylinder. It is also moved at right angles to this direction by a reducing motion, called a reproducer, so as to copy accurately on a smaller scale the motion of the engine piston. The resultant of these two movements imparts to the…

In an internal-combustion engine with two or more cylinders, an induction coil and vibrator placed in the circuit between the battery or magneto and the coils for the different cylinders, which are used without vibrators of their own.

the layer of white semifluid substance (myelin), between the primitive sheath and axis cylinder of a medullated nerve fiber.

A bird lime is prepared from its fruit. [Written also misletoe, misseltoe, and mistleto.] Lindley. Loudon.

Having only one cotyledon, seed lobe, or seminal leaf. Lindley.

A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon. Moon blindness. (a) (Far.) A kind of ophthalmia liable to recur at intervals of three or four weeks. (b) (Med.) Hemeralopia. -- Moon dial, a dial used to indicate time by moonlight. -- Moon face, a round face like a full moon. -- Moon madness, lunacy. [Poetic] -- Moon month, a…

Having eyes affected by the moon; moonblind; dim-eyed; purblind.

A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; -- sometimes called nyctalopia.

Shortsighted; purblind.

elephone, depending on the fact that the friction between a metallic point and a moving cylinder of moistened chalk, or a moving slip of paper, on which it rests is diminished by the passage of a current between the point and the moving surface. -- Mo`to*graph"ic (#), a.

A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold.

A light, spongy, cylindrical cake, used for breakfast and tea.

To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.

, a scarf for protecting the head and neck in cold weather; a tippet. Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler above her eyes. Shak.

A kind of earthen or metal drinking cup, with a handle, -- usually cylindrical and without a lip.

tantes (. Etym: [L., flying flies.] (Med.) Specks or filaments apparently seen moving or glinding about in the field of vision. Their appearance is often a symptom of disease of the eye, or of disorder of the nervous system.

Having a cylindrical body with a convex head of larger diameter; having a head like that of a mushroom.

uised; open to view; manifest; plain. The truth appears so naked on my side, That any purblind eye may find it out. Shak. All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we to do. Heb. iv. 13.

ual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by one intelligent will.