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A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.

An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hoppe

Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle. Dead ahead (Naut.), directly ahead; -- said of a ship or any object, esp. of the wind when blowing from that point toward which a vessel would go. -- Dead angle (Mil.), an angle or space which can not be seen or defended from behind the…

cell becomes gradually constricted by a furrow transverse to the long axis of the nuclear spindle, followed, on the completion of the division of the nucleus, by a separation of the cell contents into two masses, called the daughter cells. -- Long division (Math.), the process of division when the operations are mostl…

An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.

A principle or mixture of principles derived from Euonymus atropurpureus, or spindle tree.

A genus of small European and American trees; the spindle tree. The bark is used as a cathartic.

ing power being applied by the hand through a cord winding in reverse directions upon the spindle as it rotates backward and forward. Knight. -- Fly fishing, the act or art of angling with a bait of natural or artificial flies. Walton. -- Fly flap, an implement for killing flies. -- Fly governor, a governor for regu…

The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11.

The lower part of a millstone spindle. It rests in a step. Knight.

Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.

A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; -- named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle.

to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europæus).

a single gimbal, as that by which the cockeye of the upper millstone is supported on the spindle.

A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on.

The part of a lathe that holds the revolving spindle and its attachments; -- also called poppet head, the opposite corresponding part being called a tailstock.

A yarn measure of six hundred yards or of a spindle. See Spindle.

; as, horizontal distance. Horizontal drill, a drilling machine having a horizontal drill spindle. -- Horizontal engine, one the piston of which works horizontally. -- Horizontal fire (Mil.), the fire of ordnance and small arms at point-blank range or at low angles of elevation. -- Horizontal force (Physics), the ho…

The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs.

That portion of a rotating piece, as a shaft, axle, spindle, etc., which turns in a bearing or box. See Illust. of Axle box. Journal box, or Journal bearing (Mach.) the carrier of a journal; the box in which the journal of a shaft, axle, or pin turns.