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A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a compensator or balancing coil.

A ravine caused by heavy rains or a watercourse. [Texas & N. Mex.]

The range within which the fire of small arms is very destructive. With the magazine rifle, this is six hundred yards.

A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery.

ome contempt, or indicted for some crime; -- so called in distinction from a justice's warrant.

A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes ve…

One of the Brachyura.

The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.

See Brand-new.

A litter on which a person may be carried. [Obs.] Coigrave.

Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway. Most of the branches , or streams, were dried up. W. Irving.

A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation.

That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.

A system of branches.

A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have.

Of or pertaining to branchiæ or gills. Branchial arches, the bony or cartilaginous arches which support the gills on each side of the throat of fishes and amphibians. See Illustration in Appendix. -- Branchial clefts, the openings between the branchial arches through which water passes.

Furnished with branchiæ; as, branchiate segments.

Having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous gastropods.

Fullness of branches.

Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.