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A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material.

The system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to distribute the weight. Bridging joist. Same as Binding joist.

A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper.…

A wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge.

Colossal' of extraordinary height; gigantic. -- n.

mortgage. -- Ship broker, one who acts as agent in buying and selling ships, procuring freight, etc. -- Stock broker. See Stockbroker.

One of the elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It…

A modification of the voice sounds, by which they are intensified and heightened in pitch; -- observed in auscultation of the chest in certain cases of intro-thoracic disease.

A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.

closed in boxes, bales, or casks. -- Sale by bulk, a sale of goods as they are, without weight or measure.

A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.

quid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water.

The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.

A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended of a hook block in the bight of the running part.

o bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands. And all their confidence Under the weight of mountains buried deep. Milton.

A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.

aid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.

A car used on freight or construction trains for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car. [U. S.]

ng in some zinc ores. It is a white metal, both ductile and malleable. Symbol Cd. Atomic weight 111.8. It was discovered by Stromeyer in 1817, who named it from its association with zinc or zinc ore. Cadmium yellow, a compound of cadmium and sulphur, of an intense yellow color, used as a pigment.

, and is the most strongly basic and electro-positive substance known. Symbol Cs. Atomic weight 132.6.