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A bent tube used to determine the velocity of running water, by placing the curved end under water, and observing the height to which the fluid rises in the tube; a kind of current meter.

The act of placing, or the state of being placed.

A copy of a print, writing, etc., made by placing it upon a chemically prepared paper which is acted upon by a gas which permeates the paper of the print, writing, etc.

The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after. "The postposition of the nominative case to the verb." Mede.

To drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc., having perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off. B. Edwards.

The act of placing in a pot; as, the potting of plants; the potting of meats for preservation.

To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; (Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state. Shak. Till the bright mountains prop the incumbent sky. Pope. For being not propp'd by ancestry. Shak. I prop myself upon those few suppor…

The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering. "Oblations for the altar of proposition." Jer. Taylor.

h. See under Bell. -- Belt punch (Mach.), a punch, or punch pliers, for making holes for lacings in the ends of driving belts. -- Punch press. See Punching machine, under Punch, v. i. -- Punch pliers, pliers having a tubular, sharp-edged steel punch attached to one of the jaws, for perforating leather, paper, and th…

The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right he had before; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into possession only by suit. Bouvier.

The act of replacing.

An instrument employed for replacing a displaced organ or part.

t of ceremony in the east by word or act; an obeisance, performed by bowing very low and placing the right palm on the forehead. [Written also salaam.]

he salt, phrases which have survived the old custom, in the houses of people of rank, of placing a large saltcellar near the middle of a long table, the places above which were assigned to the guests of distinction, and those below to dependents, inferiors, and poor relations. See Saltfoot. His fashion is not to take k…

The act of solacing, or the state of being solaced; also, that which solaces. [R.]

The operation for restoring or replacing the soft palate when it has been lost. Dunglison. -- Staph`y*lo*plas"tic, a.

The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting.

The act of supplanting or displacing. Habitual supplantation of immediate selfishness. Cloeridge.

Low shoes fastened with lacings. Bale tie, a fastening for the ends of a hoop for a bale.

A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine. Weale.