- Any one of numerous species of small apterous insects
belonging to the order Thysanura. They have two elastic caudal stylets
which can be bent under the abdomen and then suddenly extended like a
spring, thus enabling them to leap to a considerable distance. See
Collembola, and Podura.
- Move a boat - Small anchor - To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat,
dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it. - A small anchor used whenever a large one can be dispensed
witch. See Kedge, v. t., and Anchor, n.
- Notch - paragraph impression - Place in from the margin - Set in from the margin - To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of
teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper. - To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent
a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp. - To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to
apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a
servant.
- Adverse reaction, recoil - Hostile reaction - Quick, sharp recoil - Repercussions - The distance through which one part of connected
machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving
the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear;
also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by
irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.
- Celestial body - Celestial body in elliptical orbit - Celestial object - Come before tea to see a heavenly body! - Falling star - Halley’s, eg - Heavenly body