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seeth all his goings. Job xxxiv. 21. Going barrel. (Horology) (a) A barrel containing the mainspring, and having teeth on its periphery to drive the train. (b) A device for maintaining a force to drive the train while the timepiece is being wound up. -- Going forth. (Script.) (a) Outlet; way of exit. "Every going fort…

Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.

The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.

To requite; to recompense. [Obs.] It remains . . . To gratify his noble service. Shak.

To hoist. [Obs.] They . . . hoised up the mainsail to the wind. Acts xxvii. 40.

e points which are seen single while the point of sight, or the adjustment of the eyes, remains unchanged. The sum of all the points which are seen single, while the point of sight remains unchanged, is called the horopter. J. Le Conte.

A discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks; a water plug.

with a partition dipping into water, for opening or closing communication between two gas mains, the open ends of which protrude about the water.

Anterior in age to the lowest rocks which contain organic remains. Lyell.

ith a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale. Then with what life remains, impaled, and left To writhe at leisure round the bloody stake. Addison.

ck; unconquerable; as, an impregnable fortress; impregnable virtue. The man's affection remains wholly unconcerned and impregnable. South. -- Im*preg"na*ble*ness, n. -- Im*preg"na*bly, adv.

The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission.

complete or entire. Buckle. When all external differences have passed away, one element remains intact, unchanged, -- the everlasting basis of our common nature, the human soul. F. W. Robertson.

able quantity; specifically, a function of the coefficients of one or more forms, which remains unaltered, when these undergo suitable linear transformations. J. J. Sylvester.

A warlike or hostile entrance into the possessions or domains of another; the incursion of an army for conquest or plunder.

enting in a diagram the relations of pressure and temperature in a gas, when the volume remains constant. -- Isometrical perspective. See under Perspective. -- Isometrical projection, a species of orthographic projection, in which but a single plane of projection is used. It is so named from the fact that the project…

One who remains or keeps in a place or position. Discreet; chaste; keepers at home. Titus ii. 5.

or love into a flame. So is a contentious man to kindle strife. Prov. xxvi. 21. Nothing remains but that I kindle the boy thither. Shak. Kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam. Milton. Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. Dryden.

of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.

of its lungs, and when waters dry up, it encases itself in a nest of hard mud, where it remains till the rainy season. It is used as food.