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The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.…

the edible white bean; -- so called from its size. -- Sacred bean. See under Sacred. -- Screw bean. See under Screw. -- Sea bean. (a) Same as Florida bean. (b) A red bean of unknown species used for ornament. -- Tonquin bean, or Tonka bean, the fragrant seed of Dipteryx odorata, a leguminous tree. -- Vanilla bean.…

To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground. The last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, . . . it turned and turned with nothing to bite. Dickens. To bite the dust, To bite the ground, to fall in the agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the…

The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.

A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.

r material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end.

A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored. Farrow.

A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.

y, to produce a different but definite rate of angular velocity in an axis, as in cutting screws, gear, etc. -- To ring the changes on, to present the same facts or arguments in variety of ways.

To cut, so as to make a screw thread.

A tool with several points, used for cutting or finishing screw threads, either external or internal, on work revolving in a lathe.

may be verified, or on which they may be checked. -- Check nut (Mech.), a secondary nut, screwing down upon the primary nut to secure it. Knight. -- Check valve (Mech.), a valve in the feed pipe of a boiler to prevent the return of the feed water. -- To take check, to take offense. [Obs.] Dryden.

An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.

A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.

:c and b:d. -- Compound rest (Mech.), the tool carriage of an engine lathe. -- Compound screw (Mech.), a screw having on the same axis two or more screws with different pitch (a differential screw), or running in different directions (a right and left screw). -- Compound time (Mus.), that in which two or more simple…

objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.

largement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head.

ession around the top of (a hole in wood, metal, etc.) for the reception of the head of a screw or bolt below the surface, either wholly or in part; as, to countersink a hole for a screw.

A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the jionts of framework, etc.

A small jackscrew. Knight.