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he fifth medal, leads a horse with something like a thread; in her other hand she holds a switch. Addison.

A beverage of molasses and water, seasoned with vinegar and ginger. [U. S.]

from Switch, v. Switching engine, a locomotive for switching cars from one track to another, and making up trains; -- called also switch engine. [U.S.]

One who tends a switch on a railway.

Whisking. [Colloq.] Coombe.

A switch consisting of one or more knifelike pieces hinged at one end and making contact near the other with flat gripping springs.

A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.

= Point switch.

A switch which opens a circuit when the current falls below a certain predetermined value, used to protect certain types of motors from running at excessive speed upon decrease of load.

itself; as, the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas lighting; an automatic engine or switch; an automatic mouse.

A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses. No blackstrap to-night; switchel, or ginger pop. Judd.

ich guide the movement of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also.

A switching engine the running gear and driving gear of which are on a bogie, or truck.

A stick or switch used among some American Indians in making or counting a coup.

A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train (45 to 50 feet), laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.

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

ed to a rail of more depth than width. (b) A guard rail by the side of the main rail at a switch. Knight. -- Edge railway, a railway having the rails set on edge. -- Edge stone, a curbstone. -- Edge tool. (a) Any tool instrument having a sharp edge intended for cutting. (b) A tool for forming or dressing an edge; an…

To snap; to project quickly. The use of the elastic switch to fillip small missiles with. Tylor.

A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang. Conscience . . . is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels. Tillotson.

e). Squirrel-tail grass, troublesome to animals. Seacoast and Northwest. Hordeum jubatum. Switch grass, hay, cut young. Panicum virgatum. Timothy, cut young, the best of hay. North. Phleum pratense. Velvet grass, hay on poor soil. South. Holcus lanatus. Vernal grass, pasture, hay, lawn. Anthoxanthum odoratum. Wire gras…