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Boring; piercing; -- applied to certain kinds of pain, especially to those of locomotor ataxia.

Determination of the direction of locomotion by heat.

lever (Steam Engine), the hand lever by which a throttle valve is moved, especially in a locomotive. -- Throttle valve (Steam Engine), a valve moved by hand or by a governor for regulating the supply of steam to the steam chest. In one form it consists of a disk turning on a transverse axis.

nd of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, -- used as an alarm signal.

ven plane by the line of direction in which a tractive force acts. -- Traction engine, a locomotive for drawing vehicles on highways or in the fields.

A locomotive driving wheel which acts by friction adhesion to a smooth track.

Arbutus. -- Trailing spring, a spring fixed in the axle box of the trailing wheels of a locomotive engine, and so placed as to assist in deadening any shock which may occur. Weale. -- Trailing wheel, a hind wheel of a locomotive when it is not a driving wheel; also, one of the hind wheels of a carriage.…

of which the brake is controlled by a change of pressure in the air pipe leading from the locomotive.

e pairs of wheels and the necessary boxes, springs, etc., to carry and guide one end of a locomotive or a car; -- sometimes called bogie in England. Trucks usually have four or six wheels.

A large revolving platform, for turning railroad cars, locomotives, etc., in a different direction; -- called also turnplate.

inery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection.

which are often larger than the rest, and different in structure, and are used chiefly in locomotion. See Illust. of Crustacea, and Stomapoda.

A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.

onveying vehicles, in machinery, and for various purposes; as, the wheel of a wagon, of a locomotive, of a mill, of a watch, etc. The gasping charioteer beneath the wheel Of his own car. Dryden.

Running without control; running along the line without a train; as, a wild-cat locomotive.

To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.

like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works. (d) pl.

An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid.