Definition of rail

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Rail (n.) A horizontal piece in a frame or paneling. See Illust. of Style.

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Dividend :: Dividend (n.) A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate..
Collision :: Collision (n.) The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing..
Corner :: Corner (n.) The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock..
Junction :: "Junction (n.) The place or point of union, meeting, or junction; specifically, the place where two or more lines of railway meet or cross..
Introit :: Introit (n.) A psalm sung or chanted immediately before the collect, epistle, and gospel, and while the priest is entering within the rails of the altar..
Train :: Train (v. t.) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
Down :: Down (a.) Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway..
Intestine :: Intestine (a.) The bowels; entrails; viscera.
Claw :: Claw (n.) To rail at; to scold.
Pass :: Pass (v. t.) To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate..
Inrail :: Inrail (v. t.) To rail in; to inclose or surround, as with rails..
Switch :: Switch (v. t.) To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; -- generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another..
Plaice :: Plaice (n.) A large American flounder (Paralichthys dentatus; called also brail, puckermouth, and summer flounder. The name is sometimes applied to other allied species..
Chitterling :: Chitterling (n.) The frill to the breast of a shirt, which when ironed out resembled the small entrails. See Chitterlings..
Engrail :: Engrail (v. i.) To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.
Rive :: Rive (v. t.) To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles..
Axle Guard :: Axle guard () The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically; -- also called a jaw in the United States, and a housing in England..
Frail :: Frail (n.) A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins..
T Rail :: T rail () See under T.
Peirastic :: Peirastic (a.) Fitted for trail or test; experimental; tentative; treating of attempts.
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