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Water Bridge :: Water bridge () See Water table.

Tail :: Tail (a.) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail..

Panel :: Panel (n.) A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss..

Petard :: Petard (n.) A case containing powder to be exploded, esp. a conical or cylindrical case of metal filled with powder and attached to a plank, to be exploded against and break down gates, barricades, drawbridges, etc. It has been superseded..

Bridge :: Bridge (v. t.) To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river..

Abridgment :: Abridgment (n.) The act of abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses..

Cock :: Cock (n.) The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.

Safe :: Safe (superl.) Conferring safety; securing from harm; not exposing to danger; confining securely; to be relied upon; not dangerous; as, a safe harbor; a safe bridge, etc..

Cable :: Cable (n.) A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable..

Turret :: Turret (n.) A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries..

Caput :: Caput (n.) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.

Drawbridge :: Drawbridge (n.) A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal..

Trestle :: Trestle (n.) A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like..

Bridge :: Bridge (n.) A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit.

Precis :: Precis (n.) A concise or abridged statement or view; an abstract; a summary.

Unabridged :: Unabridged (a.) Not abridged, or shortened; full; complete; entire; whole..

Transfluent :: Transfluent (a.) Passing or flowing through a bridge; -- said of water.

Pensioner :: Pensioner (n.) In the university of Cambridge, England, one who pays for his living in commons; -- corresponding to commoner at Oxford..

Let :: Let (v. t.) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; -- often with out; as, to let the building of a bridge; to let out the lathing and the plastering..

Famulist :: Famulist (n.) A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge..

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