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A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel.

The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops. These troops came to the army harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon.

genus Umbra, as U. limi. The genus is allied to the pickerels. -- Mud plug, a plug for stopping the mudhole of a boiler. -- Mud puppy (Zoöl.), the menobranchus. -- Mud scow, a heavy scow, used in dredging; a mud boat. [U.S.] -- Mud turtle, Mud tortoise (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of fresh-water tortoises o…

A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit; a stopping of the suit; a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff, either because he is satisfied that he can not support it, or upon the judge's expressing his opinion. A compulsory nonsuit is a nonsuit ordered by the court on the ground tha…

ing and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc.

The act of stopping up, as a passage. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act of stopping up, or closing, an opening. "Deaf by an outward obturation." Bp. Hall.

The act of filling or crowding together; a stopping by redundant matter; obstruction, particularly in the lower intestines. Jer. Taylor.

To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.

The act of stopping with a plug.

The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges.

relays of horses, or by keeping one carriage to which fresh horses are attached at each stopping place.

ied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes. Putty powder, an oxide of tin, or of tin and lead in various proportions, much used in polishing glass, metal, precious stones, etc.

99 Spanker Gaff; 100 Peak Halyards; 101 Spanker Vangs; 102 Spanker Boom; 103 Spanker Boom Topping Lift; 104 Jacob's Ladder, or Stern Ladder; 105 Spanker Sheet; 106 Cutwater; 107 Starboard Bow; 108 Starboard Beam; 109 Water Line; 110 Starboard Quarter; 111 Rudder.

A thin, flat cork used for stopping a wide-mouthed bottle; also, a thin wooden bung for casks.

An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.

An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate of flood gate.

A stopping or standing still of the sun. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of stopping, or coming to a stand; the state of being erect upon the feet; stand.

famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender. Attalus endeavored to starve Italy by stopping their convoy of provisions from Africa. Arbuthnot.