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Seen with one's own eyes; belonging to, or connected with, personal observation; as, autoptic testimony or experience.

were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.

Feathers connecting the under surface of the wing and the body, and concealed by the closed wing.

A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.

A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve.

The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.…

A row of bright spots observed in connection with total eclipses of the sun. Just before and after a total eclipse, the slender, unobscured crescent of the sun's disk appears momentarily like a row of bright spots resembling a string of beads. The phenomenon (first fully described by Francis Baily, 1774 -- 1844) is tho…

One of the beams connecting the successive supports of a trestle bridge or bateau bridge.

That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie. "To join in Hymen's bands." Shak.

The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.

ent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.

A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.

A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam.

situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection. But of this frame, the bearings and the ties, The strong connections, nice dependencies. Pope.

instrument for blowing fires, consisting of two nearly heart-shaped boards with handles, connected by leather, and having a valve and tube.

To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place belonging to . . . Bethsaids. Luke ix. 10. The mighty men which belonged to David. 1 Kings i. 8.

That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance.

Unnatural connection with a beast.

Having the anterior toes connected by a basal web.

The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.