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Relevation :: Relevation (n.) A raising or lifting up.

Defile :: Defile (n.) The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior. See Defilade..

Shed :: Shed (n.) The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads..

Simple :: Simple (a.) A part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.

Shears :: Shears (n.) An apparatus for raising heavy weights, and especially for stepping and unstepping the lower masts of ships. It consists of two or more spars or pieces of timber, fastened together near the top, steadied by a guy or guys, and furnished with the necessary tackle..

Whim :: Whim (n.) A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes; -- called also whim gin, and whimsey..

Step :: Step (a.) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession..

Raising :: Raising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rais.

Forcing :: Forcing (n.) The art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits at an earlier season than the natural one, as in a hitbed or by the use of artificial heat..

Sedition :: Sedition (n.) The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act; excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to lawful authority..

Bee :: Bee (n.) A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee..

Stumbled :: Stum (v. t.) To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation..

Toss :: Toss (n.) A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk.

Heft :: Heft (v. t.) To prove or try the weight of by raising.

Taxation :: Taxation (n.) The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue; also, a system of raising revenue..

Kilogrammetre :: Kilogrammetre (n.) A measure of energy or work done, being the amount expended in raising one kilogram through the height of one meter, in the latitude of Paris..

Chevrette :: Chevrette (n.) A machine for raising guns or mortar into their carriages.

Vivarium :: Vivarium (n.) A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc..

Hydrotrope :: Hydrotrope (n.) A device for raising water by the direct action of steam; a pulsometer.

Hydraulics :: Hydraulics (n.) That branch of science, or of engineering, which treats of fluids in motion, especially of water, its action in rivers and canals, the works and machinery for conducting or raising it, its use as a prime mover, and the like..

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