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erable magnitude, usually with arches or supported on trestles, for carrying a road, as a railroad, high above the ground or water; a bridge; especially, one for crossing a valley or a gorge. Cf. Trestlework.

m, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident.

Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants. Ther…

To deprive of the viscera, or entrails; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

Having long and slender trailing stems.

ion; a coil. So glides some trodden serpent on the grass, And long behind wounded volume trails. Dryden. Undulating billows rolling their silver volumes. W. Irving.

; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth. Like vomit from his yawning entrails poured. Sandys.

A freight car on a railway. [Eng.]

The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away.

, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.

, an intermediate station between principal stations on a line of travel, especially on a railroad. -- Way train, a train which stops at the intermediate, or way, stations; an accommodation train. -- Way warden, the surveyor of a road.

Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of a plant.

ecting the upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam, or railroad rail.

To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.

A New Zealand rail (Ocydromus australis) which has wings so short as to be incapable of flight.

-- Wheel boat, a boat with wheels, to be used either on water or upon inclined planes or railways. -- Wheel bug (Zoöl.), a large North American hemipterous insect (Prionidus cristatus) which sucks the blood of other insects. So named from the curious shape of the prothorax. -- Wheel carriage, a carriage moving on wh…

by lines through the points contact of the wheels of a vehicle, etc., with the surface or rails on which they run; more esp., the length of this figure between the points of contact of the two extreme wheels on either side.

igs or osiers, or wickerwork. Each one a little wicker basket had, Made of fine twigs, entrailéd curiously. Spenser.

Prov. Eng.] -- Wood hen. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of Old World short-winged rails of the genus Ocydromus, including the weka and allied species.

In a working position or manner; as, a T rail placed workwise, i.e., resting on its base.