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he longitudinal axis of an originally straight bar under any system of bending forces. Rankine. -- Elastic fluids, those which have the property of expanding in all directions on the removal of external pressure, as the air, steam, and other gases and vapors. -- Elastic limit (Mech.), the limit of distortion, by bend…

lane of flotation. (b) More commonly, the middle of the length of the load water line. Rankine. -- Plane, or Line, of flotation, the plane or line in which the horizontal surface of a fluid cuts a body floating in it. See Bearing, n., 9 (c). -- Surface of flotation (Shipbuilding), the imaginary surface which all the…

play. Shak. One way a band select from forage drives A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine. Milton. Mawhood completed his forage unmolested. Marshall.

A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade. [R.] Prior.

The state of being fumid; smokiness.

h, an arch having a form adapted to sustain pressure similar to that exerted by earth. Rankine.

gyration the distance between the axis of a rotating body and its center of gyration. Rankine.

instant; as, instantaneous acceleration, velocity, etc. Instantaneous center of rotation (Kinematics), in a plane or in a plane figure which has motions both of translation and of rotation in the plane, is the point which for the instant is at rest. -- Instantaneous axis of rotation (Kinematics), in a body which has m…

leus of a cell; as. the intranuclear network of fibrils, seen in the first stages of karyokinesis.

taining to the reception or the giving out of equal quantities of heat by a substance. Rankine. Isodiabatic lines or curves, a pair of lines or curves exhibiting, on a diagram of energy, the law of variation of the pressure and density of a fluid, the one during the lowering, and the other during the raising, of its te…

nce, in general, a closefitting jacket or upper garment made of an elastic fabric (as stockinet).

See Kie, Ky, and Kine. [Prov. Eng.] Gay.

Kine; cows. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Kinesodic.

Kine. [Scot.] See Kee, Kie, and Kine.

Absence of depth or of duskiness in color; as, the lightness of a tint; lightness of complexion.

ertain diseases, as obesity, by gymnastics; -- proposed by Pehr Henrik Ling, a Swede. See Kinesiatrics.

nother to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous. Erskine.

Giving milk; -- now applied only to beasts. "Milch camels." Gen. xxxii. "Milch kine." Shak.

from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of. "Milking the kine." Gay. I have given suck, and know How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me. Shak.