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Truss :: Truss (n.) The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.

Geocentrical :: Geocentrical (a.) Having reference to the center of the earth.

Centre :: Centre (v. t.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.

Clout :: Clout (n.) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; -- probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.

Centralize :: Centralize (v. t.) To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control..

Outer :: Outer (a.) Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump in cricket; the outer world..

Centripetal :: Centripetal (a.) Tending, or causing, to approach the center..

Coak :: Coak (n.) A metallic bushing or strengthening piece in the center of a wooden block sheave.

Diameter :: Diameter (n.) The length of a straight line through the center of an object from side to side; width; thickness; as, the diameter of a tree or rock..

Principal :: Principal (n.) One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.

Selenecentric :: Selenecentric (a.) As seen or estimated from the center of the moon; with the moon central.

Centering :: Centering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Centr.

Bude Light :: Bude light () A light in which high illuminating power is obtained by introducing a jet of oxygen gas or of common air into the center of a flame fed with coal gas or with oil.

Heliocentrical :: Heliocentrical (a.) pertaining to the sun's center, or appearing to be seen from it; having, or relating to, the sun as a center; -- opposed to geocentrical..

Doublethreaded :: Doublethreaded (a.) Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads.

Pith :: Pith (n.) The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue..

Evolute :: Evolute (n.) A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent..

Slip :: Slip (n.) The motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller..

Rush :: Rush (n.) A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush..

Reredos :: Reredos (n.) The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls..

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