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A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.

sspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead.

a mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston;

as, to cut off communication; to cut off (the flow of) steam from (the boiler to) a steam engine. (d) To intercept; as,, to cut off an enemy's retreat.

alve gearing or mechanism by which steam is cut off from entering the cylinder of a steam engine after a definite point in a stroke, so as to allow the remainder of the stroke to be made by the expansive force of the steam already let in. See Expansion gear, under Expansion.

as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base. Cycloidal engine. See Geometric lathe.

A machine for measuring at any moment velocity of rotation, as of a wheel of a steam engine. Knight.

The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam.

A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock.

Ready in the deck. Massinger. Between decks. See under Between. -- Deck bridge (Railroad Engineering), a bridge which carries the track upon the upper chords; -- distinguished from a through bridge, which carries the track upon the lower chords, between the girders. -- Deck curb (Arch.), a curb supporting a deck in r…

e by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument. To devise curious works. Ex. CCTV. 32. Devising schemes to realize his ambitious views. Bancroft.

a mechanical drawing, as distinguished from an artistical one. Indicator diagram. (Steam Engine) See Indicator card, under indicator

e part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts. Direct-acting steam engine, one in which motion is transmitted to the crank without the intervention of a beam or lever; -- also called direct-action steam engine. -- Direct-acting steam pump, one in which the steam piston rod is directly connected…

Coupled without intermediate connections, as an engine and a dynamo.

In owls, the space around the eyes. Disk engine, a form of rotary steam engine. -- Disk shell (Zoöl.), any species of Discina.

gh, or weight of steam, water, etc., displaced, in a given time, by the piston of a steam engine or pump.

To burst with a loud report; to explode. "Disploding engines." Young.

To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side.

That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating. Dividing engine, a machine for graduating circles (as for astronomical instruments) or bars (as for scales); also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels. -- Dividing sinker. (Knitting Mach.). See under Sinker.

machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine.