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An apparatus for depositing and consolidating concrete under water, essentially a tube of wood or sheet metal with a hooperlike top. It is usually handled by a crane.

Having three sides or faces; thus, a trihedral angle is a solid angle bounded by three plane angles. [Written also triedral.]

A solid of the isometric system bounded by twenty-four equal faces, three corresponding to each face of an octahedron. Tetragonal trisoctahedron, a trisoctahedron each face of which is a quadrilateral; called also trapezohedron and icositetrahedron. -- Trigonal trisoctahedron, a trisoctahedron each face of which is an…

The replacement of an edge or solid angle by a plane, especially when the plane is equally inclined to the adjoining faces.

A friable volcanic rock or conglomerate, formed of consolidated cinders, or scoria.

The art of fashioning solid bodies into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe.

Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various by means of a lathe and cutting tools.

To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part relatively to another about an axis passing through both; to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft.

To support by some solid foundation; to place something underneath for support.

A section or part of a cylinder, cone, or other solid of revolution, cut off by a plane oblique to the base; -- so called from its resemblance to the hoof of a horse.

something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league; as, the weavers have formed a union; trades unions have become very numerous; the United States of America are often called the Union. A. Hamilton.

To become one; to be cemented or consolidated; to combine, as by adhesion or mixture; to coalesce; to grow together.

Not sound; not whole; not solid; defective; infirm; diseased. -- Un*sound"ly, adv. -- Un*sound"ness, n.

In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion.

the gaseous, or aëriform, state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid.

imilar to that described in the first definition above, or the representation of one in a solid block of stone, or the like, used for an ornament, as on a terrace or in a garden. See Illust. of Niche.

and some other animals; -- called also vermiform appendage, and vermiform process. Small solid bodies, such as grape seeds or cherry stones, sometimes lodge in it, causing serious, or even fatal, inflammation. See Illust. under Digestion.

a divine personage. More rarely, an oval composed of two arcs not representing a glory; a solid oval, etc.

e imagination. A government intent on showy absurdities and viewy enterprises rather than solid work. London Spectator.

Existing in imagination only; not real; fanciful; imaginary; having no solid foundation; as, visionary prospect; a visionary scheme or project. Swift.