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balanced passenger cars around its rim; -- so called after G. W. G. Ferris, American engineer, who erected the first of its kind for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

venturer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.…

To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; as, to fleer and flout. To fleer and scorn at our solemnity. Shak.

A buccaneer; an American pirate. See Flibuster. [Obs.]

To cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer; as, the scold began to flout and fling.

To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with at. Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. Swift.

The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive.

thout the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber. Bacon.

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

To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff. Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. Swift.

A cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer. I thank thee for that gird, good Tranio. Shak.

To make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly. [Obs.] Shak.

A sneer; a flout. [Obs.]

One who works a gun, whether on land or sea; a cannoneer.

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…

r act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage.

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

a shaft to which the horses are attached. On top is an ammunition box upon which the cannoneers sit.