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r gall, is stored up, as secreted by the liver; the cholecystis. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus. -- Gall duct, a duct which conveys bile, as the cystic duct, or the hepatic duct. -- Gall sickness, a remitting bilious fever in the Netherlands. Dunglison. -- Gall of the earth (Bot.), an herbaceous composite plant…

The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel; -- sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.

a of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents. Galvanic battery (Elec.), an apparatus for generating electrical currents by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; -- now usually called voltaic battery. See Battery. -- Galvanic circuit or circle. (Elec.) See under Circuit. -- Galvanic pile (Ele…

An instrument or apparatus for measuring the intensity of an electric current, usually by the deflection of a magnetic needle. Differential galvanometer. See under Differental, a. -- Sine galvanometer, Cosine galvanometer, Tangent galvanometer (Elec.), a galvanometer in which the sine, cosine, or tangent respectively,…

An instrument or apparatus for detecting the presence of electrical currents, especially such as are of feeble intensity.

An apparatus for the generation of gases, or for impregnating a liquid with a gas, or a gas with a volatile liquid.

An apparatus for holding and measuring of gas; in gas works, a huge iron cylinder closed at one end and having the other end immersed in water, in which it is made to rise or fall, according to the volume of gas it contains, or the pressure required.

An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house.

Any instrument or apparatus for measuring the state of a phenomenon, or for ascertaining its numerical elements at any moment; -- usually applied to some particular instrument; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.

ain suspended as vapor in the blast current, but will be deposited as snow in the cooling apparatus. The resultant uniformly dehydrated blast effects great economy in fuel consumption, and promotes regularity of furnace operation, and certainty of furnace control.

A portable apparatus for making soda water or aërated liquids on a small scale. Knight.

An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.

An apparatus in which vapor or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort, or vessel for generating carbonic acid gas, etc.

a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable. Germination apparatus, an apparatus for malting grain.

An apparatus for determining the amount of sugar in diabetic urine.

An apparatus for diffusing a solution, as brine or vinegar, over a large surface, for exposure to the air.

Furniture; apparatus or accouterments for work, traveling, war, etc. [Scot.] Jamieson.

A form of the above apparatus, invented by M. Foucault, mounted so delicately as to render visible the rotation of the earth, through the tendency of the rotating wheel to preserve a constant plane of rotation, independently of the earth's motion.

An apparatus for determining the number of corpuscles in a given quantity of blood.

A form of apparatus (somewhat different from the hemadrometer) for measuring the velocity of the blood.