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In a temporary manner; for a time.

Extemporaneously.

The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales. [U.S.]

A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily. Du Chaillu.

Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.

A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.…

One who lodges temporarily in a hut or camp.

That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a gate.

To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb. So many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression. Burke.

An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.

That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect.

of commission (Naut.), to detach the officers and crew and retire it from active service, temporarily or permanently. -- To put the great seal, or the Treasury, into commission, to place it in the hands of a commissioner or commissioners during the abeyance of the ordinary administration, as between the going out of o…

Residence temporarily, or for a short time.

Inhabiting or occupying temporarily.

A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet.

ily (Dieffenbachia seguina), which, when chewed, causes the tongue to swell, and destroys temporarily the power of speech. -- Dumb crambo. See under crambo. -- Dumb show. (a) Formerly, a part of a dramatic representation, shown in pantomime. "Inexplicable dumb shows and noise." Shak. (b) Signs and gestures without wo…

perate on the theory that a few seconds before the occurrence of an earthquake the magnet temporarily loses its power.

y of soft iron, but sometimes of some other magnetic metal, as nickel or cobalt, rendered temporarily magnetic by being placed within a coil of wire through which a current of electricity is passing. The metal is generally in the form of a bar, either straight, or bent into the shape of a horseshoe.…

A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard. [U.S.]

To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood. How faintly flushed. how phantom fair, Was Monte Rosa, hanging there! Tennyson.