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To revolve or cause to revolve; to spin. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A firearm which receives its load at the breech. For cavalry, the revolver and breechloader will supersede the saber. Rep. Sec. War (1860).

eceptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel.

ic, or Pantascopic, camera, a photographic camera in which the lens and sensitized plate revolve so as to expose adjacent parts of the plate successively to the light, which reaches it through a narrow vertical slit; -- used in photographing broad landscapes. Abney.

A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.

To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons. She . . . cast in her mind what manner of salution this should be. Luke. i. 29.

An electro-positive substance, which in electro-decomposition is evolved at the cathode; -- opposed to anion. Faraday.

wo conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.

To move around; to revolve around. Other planets circle other suns. Pope.

About the pole; -- applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars.

To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion. Herrick.

and the ordinary. If the bishop neglets to collate within six months, the right to do it devolves on the archbishop. Encyc. Brit.

haped like a journal box, for clamping together the ends of two shafts, so that they may revolve together. -- Coupling pin, a pin or bolt used in coupling or joining together railroad cars, etc.

The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver.

To devolve. [Obs.] Foxe.

itial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds; or in animal life, when the germ evolves the digestive and other organs and members, or when the animals as they advance in organization acquire special organs for specific purposes.

ir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent. Of how fair a portion Adam disinherited his whole posterity! South.

specially of complex solid substances, so that the ultimate constituents are separated or evolved in new compounds, -- usually requiring a high degree of heat; as, the destructive distillation of soft coal or of wood. -- Dry distillation, the distillation of substances by themselves, or without the addition of water o…

rs may be only optically near to each other, or may be physically connected so that they revolve round their common center of gravity, and in the latter case are called also binary stars. -- Double time (Mil.). Same as Double-quick. -- Double window, a window having two sets of glazed sashes with an air space between…

of the center of the orbit of a heavenly body from the center of the body round which it revolves to the semi-transverse axis of the orbit.