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Scioptic ball (Opt.), the lens of a camera obscura mounted in a wooden ball which fits a socket in a window shutter so as to be readily turned, like the eye, to different parts of the landscape.

An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.

Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone.

An orbit, as of a star; a socket. [R.] Shak. Armillary sphere, Crystalline sphere, Oblique sphere,. See under Armillary, Crystalline,. -- Doctrine of the sphere, applications of the principles of spherical trigonometry to the properties and relations of the circles of the sphere, and the problems connected with them,…

or uniting pipes, formed by the insertion of the end of one pipe, or pipe fitting, into a socket at the end of another.

nd by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and allowing it to straighten when in place; -- often with in, out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar.

d or staff, pointed and iron-shod at the bottom, for penetrating the ground, and having a socket joint at the top, used, instead of a tripod, for supporting a compass. -- Staff angle (Arch.), a square rod of wood standing flush with the wall on each of its sides, at the external angles of plastering, to prevent their…

One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.

A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it.

Having the teeth inserted in sockets in the alveoli of the jaws.

A group of fossil saurians having biconcave vertebræ and the teeth implanted in sockets.

ists of two thin slips of steel welded together, their length being adjystable by a screw socket.