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Definition of beam

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Beam (n.) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam..

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Beamful :: Beamful (a.) Beamy; radiant.

Beamy :: Beamy (a.) Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy.

Quicken Tree :: Quicken tree () The European rowan tree; -- called also quickbeam, and quickenbeam. See Rowan tree..

Gleamy :: Gleamy (a.) Darting beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating.

Effluent :: Effluent (a.) Flowing out; as, effluent beams..

Hersillon :: Hersillon (n.) A beam with projecting spikes, used to make a breach impassable..

Quickbeam :: Quickbeam (n.) See Quicken tree.

Refulgent :: Refulgent (a.) Casting a bright light; radiant; brilliant; resplendent; shining; splendid; as, refulgent beams..

Sparpiece :: Sparpiece (n.) The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece.

Ancone :: Ancone (n.) The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter..

Beaming :: Beaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bea.

Strength :: Strength (n.) Power to resist force; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they endure the application of force without breaking or yielding; -- in this sense opposed to frangibility; as, the strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like..

Rider :: Rider (n.) An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen her frame..

Trammel :: Trammel (n.) An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil..

Quartering :: Quartering (a.) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object..

Sunday :: Sundart (n.) Sunbeam.

Axletree :: Axletree (n.) A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve..

Heliostat :: Heliostat (n.) An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope..

Contignation :: Contignation (n.) A framework or fabric, as of beams..

Reflect :: Reflect (v. i.) To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or beams..