SPage 95
- English Word Screed Definition A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound; as, martial screeds.
- English Word Screed Definition An harangue; a long tirade on any subject.
- English Word Screen Definition Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen.
- English Word Screen Definition A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, or the like.
- English Word Screen Definition A surface, as that afforded by a curtain, sheet, wall, etc., upon which an image, as a picture, is thrown by a magic lantern, solar microscope, etc.
- English Word Screen Definition A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like.
- English Word Screen Definition To provide with a shelter or means of concealment; to separate or cut off from inconvenience, injury, or danger; to shelter; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal; as, fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill.
- English Word Screen Definition To pass, as coal, gravel, ashes, etc., through a screen in order to separate the coarse from the fine, or the worthless from the valuable; to sift.
- English Word Screened Definition of Screen
- English Word Screening Definition of Screen
- English Word Screenings Definition The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
- English Word Screw Definition A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female screw, or, more usually, the nut.
- English Word Screw Definition Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also wood screws, and screw nails. See also Screw bolt, below.
- English Word Screw Definition Anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a screw. See Screw propeller, below.
- English Word Screw Definition A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller.
- English Word Screw Definition An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard.
- English Word Screw Definition An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.
- English Word Screw Definition A small packet of tobacco.
- English Word Screw Definition An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance.
- English Word Screw Definition A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b)). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
- English Word Screw Definition An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw (Caprella). See Sand screw, under Sand.
- English Word Screw Definition To turn, as a screw; to apply a screw to; to press, fasten, or make firm, by means of a screw or screws; as, to screw a lock on a door; to screw a press.
- English Word Screw Definition To force; to squeeze; to press, as by screws.
- English Word Screw Definition Hence: To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions.
- English Word Screw Definition To twist; to distort; as, to screw his visage.
- English Word Screw Definition To examine rigidly, as a student; to subject to a severe examination.
- English Word Screw Definition To use violent mans in making exactions; to be oppressive or exacting.
- English Word Screw Definition To turn one's self uneasily with a twisting motion; as, he screws about in his chair.
- English Word Screw-cutting Definition Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe.
- English Word Screw-driver Definition A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.