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Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal.

The power of changing place.

un the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.

A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.

truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.

A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks.

The front transverse beam of a locomotive.

The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station. Knight.

a railway train. [U. S.] -- Dummy car (Railroad), a car containing its own steam power or locomotive. -- Freight car (Railrood), a car for the transportation of merchandise or other goods. [U. S.] -- Hand car (Railroad), a small car propelled by hand, used by railroad laborers, etc. [U. S.] -- Horse car, or Street car…

also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs.

iaceous lava from a volcano. Cinder frame, a framework of wire in front of the tubes of a locomotive, to arrest the escape of cinders. -- Cinder notch (Metal.), the opening in a blast furnace, through which melted cinder flows out.

m which the current is "picked up" by a plow or other device fixed to the car or electric locomotive. Hence Conduit railway.

A strong inclined frame, usually of wrought-iron bars, in front of a locomotive engine, for catching or throwing off obstructions on a railway, as cattle; the pilot. [U.S.]

A wire cap for the smokestack of a locomotive.

op or foundry. -- Water crane, a kind of hydrant with a long swinging spout, for filling locomotive tenders, water carts, etc., with water.

on. Crank axle (Mach.), a driving axle formed with a crank or cranks, as in some kinds of locomotives. -- Crank pin (Mach.), the cylindrical piece which forms the handle, or to which the connecting rod is attached, at the end of a crank, or between the arms of a double crank. -- Crank shaft, a shaft bent into a crank…

To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive. Lardner.

A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.

A locomotive with pilot at each end. Knight.

A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car.