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a loud report when run over by a train, and is used to provide a warning signal to the engineer.

The person who takes charge of a locomotive when it is left by the engineer after a trip.

That branch of science, or of engineering, which treats of fluids in motion, especially of water, its action in rivers and canals, the works and machinery for conducting or raising it, its use as a prime mover, and the like.

Haughty and contemptuous or brutal in behavior or language; overbearing; domineering; grossly rude or disrespectful; saucy; as, an insolent master; an insolent servant. "A paltry, insolent fellow." Shak. Insolent is he that despiseth in his judgment all other folks as in regard of his value, of his cunning, of his spea…

A statesman who pursues, or who favors, aggressive, domineering policy in foreign affairs. [Cant, Eng.]

To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb. The whiles she lordeth in licentious bliss. Spenser. I see them lording it in London streets. Shak. And lorded over them whom now they serve. Milton.…

radual loss or disadvantage. -- To lose heart, to lose courage; to become timid. "The mutineers lost heart." Macaulay. -- To lose one's head, to be thrown off one's balance; to lose the use of one's good sense or judgment. In the excitement of such a discovery, many scholars lost their heads. Whitney. -- To lose one'…

e steam and working as a compound engine, -- a plan introduced by M'Naught, a Scottish engineer, in 1845.

Inclined to play the master; domineering; imperious; arbitrary. Dryden.

Imperious; domineering; arbitrary.

ective power; useful work exerted, as by a machine, in a definite time. -- Mechanical engineering. See the Note under Engineering. -- Mechanical maneuvers (Mil.), the application of mechanical appliances to the mounting, dismounting, and moving of artillery. Farrow. -- Mechanical philosophy, the principles of mechan…

h. Cadet midshipman, formerly a title distinguishing a cadet line officer from a cadet engineer at the U. S. Naval Academy. See under Cadet. -- Cadet midshipman, formerly, a naval cadet who had served his time, passed his examinations, and was awaiting promotion; -- now called, in the United States, midshipman; in Eng…

Of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining machinery; a mining region. Mining engineering. See the Note under Engineering.

A mountaineer. [Obs.]

A mutineer. [Obs.]

a few persons; also, those who form the ruling few. All oligarchies, wherein a few men domineer, do what they list. Burton.

To domineer over; to overcome by insolence.

Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent. --O`ver*bear"ing*ly, adv. -- O`ver*bear"ing*ness, n.

To domineer over; to affront; to treat with indignity. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To domineer over by virtue of office. [Obs.] Shak.