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pince, f., pinchers; pliers; nippers; clamp screw; clamp; pinch bar, crowbar; toe or wedge (of a lever) or pinch bar; tongs; hold, square, of a handspike; trowsers clip (bicycle); purchase; twibill; ifarr.) toe (of a horseshoe); (hipp.) pinch, foretooth; toe of the foot; (r. /. art.) clip, catch (Maxim automatic 25 mm.) d, amorgage, {expl.) fuse pliers, cutters, or pinchers; assemblage, riveting flange, shoulder, or rim (French boiler); automatique, (Fr. art.) automatic fuse punch; avoir de la, (man.) to sit tight; en bois, vise chops, vise claws,  fuse punch; ft delectable, tongs of a pile driver; ft desamorecer, (sm. a.) unpriming pliers or pinchers, unpriming machine (reloading tool); ft double cran, cutting and crimping pliers (for Bickford and other fuses); defer hcheval, (farr.) toe; ft fil delectable, wire pinchers; deferon, smith's tongs; deferon, (art.) fuse drawer; ft goupille, pin pliers; levier, pinch bar; ft main plate coupant de cote, side-cutting flat-nose pliers; de manoeuvre, pinch bar, iron handspike; de mineur, (art.) miner's crowbar; oeilleton, (art.) spring clip (for the peep of a Sight); ft oreilles, round-nosed pliers; pantalon, trowsers' clip (bicycle); petites, tweezers; ipied de biche, claw handspike; plate, flat-nose (d) pl. Pieris; Pressante et coupante, cutting and pressing pliers; de pression, clamp (as on a sextant, etc.); ft ressort, spring pliers, spring catch; a synonym of mitten; ft riper, crow or pinch bar; ft sertir, crimping phers; tire-culot, (art.) cartridge-head extractor or pinchers (canon a balks, etc.): tire-etoupilles, (art.) primer-case extractor or pinchers; tire-goupille, pin extractor; de treillageur, wire pliers (lattice maker's); ft trois branches, (elec.) three-legged tongs; ft vis, hand vise. pincers, p. p., (of a lever) caught, pinched, under a load, weight, etc. pinceau, m., brush; (of balloons, in pi.) the two pencils of cords to which the car is directly attached; hgoudron, ft goudronner, tar brush; ft peindre; paint brush. pince-balle, m., (sm. a.) bullet nippers; (art.) hot-shot nippers (obs.). pince-dur, m., (mil. slang) an adjudant. pincer, v. a., to pinch, nip, hold fast, press; screw (man.) feel, press, gently with spur; le vent, (ruiv.) to go close to the wind. pincette, f., pincers, nippers; (in pi.) tengs, fire tongs, small nippers, tweezers; ronde, round pliers, round-nose pliers. pincebeck, m., (farr.) pinchbeck. pinne, f., (fort.) spear of chevaux defrise. pinnule, f., (inst.) vane, sight v Anne; sight; pinnule et crin, slotted, slit sight; objective, object vane; oculaire, eye vane; ft oeilletons, aperture sight. pioche, f., pickax; pick, mattock; (slang) hard study; cramming for examination; (at the Polytechnic) serious application to mathematics; aux gazons, (fort.) sod mattock; du genie, (Fr. eng.) a pick of special model, used by engineer troops; ft marteau, stone pick; portative, (mil.) portable pick; temps de, (slang) examination time. piocher, v. a., to dig; (slang) to study hard; v. n., (mach.) said of a fly wheel, the upper part of which turns from the steam cylinders; son examen, (slang) to cram for an examination; I'x, (slang) to apply oneself to mathematics, to "bone math" (U. S. M. A.). piocheur, m., digger; man who uses a pick; (slang) hard Student, grind. Plonnage, m., (mil.) pioneering. Pionnier, m., (mil.) pioneering. Pionnier, m., (slang) familiar term for an infantrymen; "doughboy" (U. S. A.); "Tommy Atkins" (British army), pipette, f., pipette. pique, m., (mil. slang.) the Ecole Polytechnique; a cadet of the Polytechnique. pique, f., pike; poker; d'abordage, (nav.) boarding pike, piqué, p, p., (of wood) worm-eaten; (steam) pitted (of a boiler); (met.) pitted; (mas.) pointed and drafted (of the face of a stone); (substantively) a pointed and drafted stone; moellon, v. s. v. moellon; de vers, worm-eaten, pique-chasse, m., (art.) awl. pique-feu, m., poker, piquer, v. a., to prick, prick through; to interweave; to backstitch; to puncture; to prick off; (man.) to spur a horse; (carp.) to mark out (work); les absents, to note absentees; la chauditre, (steam.) to scale a boiler; un cheval, (man.) to spur a horse; (farr.) to drive a nail into the quick; la cloche, v. çaure; des deux, (man.) to clap both spurs to a horse; I'heure, (nav.) to strike bells; I'horloge, v. çaure; du nez, (of a torpedo) to turn out of the course; la mazette, (fam.) to be poorly mounted, to ride a poor horse; une pierre, (man.) to point a stone; en rape, (man.) to picket (small stake), peg, holdfast. Stake; tent peg; (cav., etc.) picketing post; (surv.) sighting, alignment, stake; (fort., siege) tracing picket; (more specially) detachment or party holding itself in readiness to turn out at a moment's notice for any duty whatsoever, or for duty other than duty by roster, e.g., for an extraordinary guard; (in the field) so much of the fraction on duty for the day as is not on post, men off post; picket (military punishment, so called, ODs.), extra duty (U.S.M., A.); d'argent, anchoring, mooring, picket; arret, (art.) stake (for the carriage of the canon-revolver); d'attache, picket pin; au, (mil.) on picket; standing in one place as a punishment; (call) prisoners, turn out! de campement, (mil.) tent peg; commander de, (mil.) to detail, so as to be ready at a moment's notice; de cour d'assise, (Fr. law) detachment of troops furnished a law court, when requested by latter; piquet piquet, de, (mil.) ready to turn out at a moment's notice (as the quarter of the grand-garde, the remainder resting); directeur, (fort.) directing picket; clre au, (mil.) to be on picket; to be standing in one place as a punishment; d'execution, (mil.) firing party (execution); faire le, to stand still in one place; ferre, shod picket; former en, to picket; frette, hooped picket; de gabion, (fort.) gabion stake; d, gradins, (sm. piquetage, (mil.) planting small pickets as obstacles; (fort.) staking out the lines or trace of a work. piqueter, v. a., to stake out (a line); to fasten by means of pickets; to picket; (fort.) to trace; (carp.) to mark out (the work); des fascines, (fort.) to picket or secure fascines; les gazons, (fort.) to picket down'sods. piqueur, m., overseer; stud groom, horse breaker; outrider; d'ecurie, head groom. piqOre, f., prick, pricking; pimcture; worm hole; backstitching; (farr.) punching; (met.) pitting; de ver, worm hole (in wood). pirate, m., pirate. pirate, f., piracy. pirate, f., (man.) pirouette, circle; sur les epaules, circle on the forehand; sur les hamèhes, circle on the hind quarters; sur les hamèhes, circle on the hind quarters; militaire, circle whose vertical axis passes through center of the saddle; ordinaire, v. sur les epaules; renversée, v. sur les hanches. pirouetter, v. n., (man.) to circle. pisé, m. pisé; clay, rammed earth; pisé work; (met.) lining material (ganister, fire clay) for converters, etc.; en, in, of, beaten earth. piser, V. a., to do pisé work; to construct en pise. pissalphalte, m., pissasphaltum, mineral tar. pisté, f., (met.) slag duet or channel. pisté, f., track, trace; (gym., etc.) cinder path; (man.) longing ring, race track; track of a horse at work; double, (man.) double trace or trail, marked by both fore and hind quarters at the same time; marcher d'une, (man.) to make one trace (hind follow fore quarters); marcher de deux s. (man.) to make a double trace (quarters on different but parallel tracks); simple, (man.) single trace or trail. pister, V. r., (man.) (of the horse) to trail him- self (in the gallop, to plant one foot of the rear biped on same cross line as diagonally oppo- site anterior). pisteur, m., follower (in a flight of pigeons). pistolet, m., (sm. a.) pistol; (arl.) pistol grip and appurtenances of a rapid-fire gun; (min.)tiead, point, or borer of an earth auger, of a mine auger, of a boring bar; appreter le , (sm. a.) to cock the pistol; d'argon, (sm. a.) horse pistol; double, (sm. a.) double-barreled pistol (obs.); faire le coup de , (mil.) of a trooper, to leave the ranks and challenge the enemy to single combat; haul le , (sm. a.) raise pistol (position); ■ de mine, (min.) borer or drill of an earth auger or of a mine auger; de mineur, v. de mine; de petardement, (min.) drilling bar; • de poche, (sm.-a.) pocket pistol; ■ d repetition, (sm. a.) magazine pistol; replacer le , (sm. a.) to return pistol; ■ revolver, revolver; signaleur, signal pistol. pistolier, m., good pistol shot. Piston, ra., (mach.) piston, sucker, forcer, plug, bucket, etc.; (sm. a.) tube, nipple (obs.); follower (of a tubular magazine); aspirant, valve piston; d, basse pression, low-pressure piston; d, brosses, piston with a brush packing; cercule de, piston ring; de chargement, (r. f. art.) loading piston (Hotchkiss); clapet de, piston clapper; clefde, piston key; collète du grand, duplicate piston ring; compensateur, valve-balance piston; coquille du, piston crosshead; coup de, piston stroke; couonne de, junk ring; course du, piston stroke; couonne de, junk ring; d, disques, leather-packed piston; distribution h, piston-valve motion; a double effet, double-action piston; h double tige, piston with two rods. The envelope, packed piston; A envelope de chanvre (mitallique), hemp packed (metal), piston; Expansif, expansive piston; Defermeture, (sm. a.) piston fermeture; Fore, V. perfore; Hormeau, trunk piston; Garniture de, piston packing; Garniture de, piston packing; Garniture de, piston packing; Grand, steam piston; Guide de la tige du, piston-rod guide; It haute pression, high-pressure piston; Intermediaire, intermediate-pressure piston; Jeune de, length of stroke of a piston, travel; Levee de, piston stroke; Marche de, length of piston stroke; Metallique, metallic piston; Moteur, main piston; Perce,  d, pression intermediaire, intermediate pressure piston; queue de, tailpiece of a piston; piston a rainures, grooved piston; recepteur, main piston; resort de, packing spring; simple effet, single-action piston; d, soupape{s), valve piston; soupape de, piston alve; suedois, Swedish piston; tige de {tige de), piston-rod crosshead; tete du, piston crosshead; tige, a lige, rod piston; tigede, piston rod; a tige compenatrice, {art.) compensating piston; tournant, radial piston or plate (as or an oscillating pump); d, vapeur, steam piston. pltalne-crayon, m., {sUng), orderly who waits on drawing classes {Ecole Poly technique). pitance, f.. {Fr. a.) soldier's expression for his share oi the ration.- pitclipin, m., Georgia pine, yellow pine. pite, f.. Agave americana; coir; m., hemp, cordage, made from the agave. ptthomitre, m., cask gauge. piton, m., eyebolt, ringbolt, screw ring, ring, eye; {top..) peak, top, of a mountain; sharp point or crag or spur; cone- or point-shaped mountain; d'affut, (art.) eyebolt on a carriage; d'amarrage, anchoring eyebolt; d, anneau, eyebolt, ringbolt; s et ann^aux, (sm. a.) loops and rings (of a scabbard); fi boucle, ringbolt; carre, crutch; de chargement, packing eye or ring; de clameau, cramp-iron eyebolt; d, croc, hook bolt; d, crochet, ring hook; double, double eyebolt; h fouTche, shackle bolt; crutch; de ganse, (art.) carrying ring and bolt (pro- jectile); d, oeuil, eyebolt; de retour, (art.) guide ring (for a lanyard); de sellette, (art.) baggage-strap staple; de tirant, eye of a cramp; h vis, screw eyebolt; a vish bois, wood screw eyebolt. pitte, f., coir; cordage en , coir rope. pivot, m., pivot, axis, spindle; pin, stud; taproot of a tree; stud (or prn) of a spring in general; (77127.) pivot; (sm. a.) Widle stud; abattre un arbre en, to fell a tree through its taproot; affilth, (art.) pivot carriage; d'un arbre (mach.) journal, gudgeon; d'articulatton. (mach.) shipper dog; assembler d', to pivot together; avance, (art.) embrasure pivot; de boussole, center pin of a compass; de cabestan, spindle of a capstan; canrnd,, (art.) swivel gun; de compos, v. de boussole; fixe, (mil.) fixed pivot; foiirche, (art.) pivot pivot; horche, (art.) pivot pivot; hydroplane, (fort., mach., art., etc.) hydraulic pivot; de manoeuvres, (fort.) a fortified position regarded as a pivot in the operations of an army; mobile, movable pivot; monte sur, pivoted Movant, (mil.) movable pivot; mouvant, (mil.) on a movable pivot; de la noix, (sm. a.) tumbler stud; du ressort de batterie, (sm. a.) hammer-spring stud; slralegique, (fort.) a name sometimes given to a fortress or fortified position in virtue of its influence on strategical operations; support, (r.f. art.) pivoting support. pivotement, m., (art.) pivoting (ease of training or traversing). pivotement, m., (art.) pivoting (ease of training or traversing). placique, m., (carp.) veneering; (fort.) rammed earth facing; (cons.) facing  (nav.) scupper leather; (carp.) panel. Placarder, v. a., to placard; (carp.) to panel. Place, f., space, room, ground; seat (in a train, etc.); spot; stall (in a stable); square (of a town); to-vn; change (commercial); employment, office, post, position, place, standing (in one's class); (mil.) fortified town or position; garrison town; d'appui, (mil.) position of support in military operations; (fort.) a position supporting a camp retranche, q. v.; a supporting fort; d'armes, (mil.) parade, parade ground; open space or place of assembly in the center of a town; general parade or assembling ground of a camp or cantonment; alarm post; frontier town serving as a depot of supplies; (fort.) place of arms; (siege) parallel; (sometimes) approaches; d'armes renirante, (fort.) reentrant place of arms; d'armes saillante, (fort.) retrenched place of arms; artillerie de, garrison artillery; s basses, (fort.) the lower Part (casemates, etc.) of a bastion flank; batterie de, v. s. v., batterie; fi camp retranche, (fort.) position or city defended by a camp retranche, q. v.; a ceinture de forts, (fort.) a position surmounted by a girdle of forts; de la chaudikre, (steam) boiler room; compagnie, (mil.) depot of issue and of receipt; (Fr. art.) arrondissement where a garde d'artillerie is stationed; de depot, (fort.) generic term for fortifications considered as centers of supply or as supply depots; avec enceinte et ceinture de forts, v. h forts detaches; d'essieu, letting up for the axletree; d'essieu, letting up for the fort; forte, (fort.) usual name of a modern fortified position (consisting of an interior position, enceinte or noyau, and an exterior line). efforts; d, fosses de la même. Placé, P.P.J. placed; placed (in a race); cheval Men, horse that holds his head well. placement, m., placing, setting; investment (money). Placer, m., (man.) upright stand or attitude of a horse; normal, proper, position. placer, v. a., to place, put, set, seat; to sell; to invest; to find a place, a position, for anyone; de r argent, to put money out at interest; bien un coup, (fenc.) to thrust home; de champ, to set up on edge; un cheval, (man.) to keep a horse in equilibrium; se a cheval, (man.) to take the correct position on horseback; un homme d, cheval, (man.) to make a rider take the proper seat; une sentinelle, (man.) to post a sentry. plafond, m., (ch., cons.) ceiling; top, ceiling, of a caisson; crown (of a fire box, etc.); bottom (of a canal, of A reservoir; under face (of a staircase); (min.) roof of a gallery; (nav.) floor of a ship; floor grating of a boat; enaugures, (cons.) ceiling with the spaces between joists filled with plastering (trough-shaped on top); d, caissons, (cons.) coffered ceiling; faux, (cons.) false ceiling. Plafonnage, m., (cons.) ceiling, ceiling work. Plafonnéur, v. a., (cons.) ceil. Plage, f., beach, strand; sandy shore; quarter of the wind; de galets, shingly beach; les quatre s principales, the cardinal points; de sable, sandy sloping coast. Plaidant, a., (law) litigant; avocat, barrister. Plaideur, v. a., (law) to plead, to argue a case; to go to law with. Plaidoyer,  blister. Plaignant, m., (law) plaintiff. plain, a., flush (with anything); level, even, plain; m., the high seas; de pied, on the same floor; de pied, on the same floor; de pied, on the same floor. Plaine, f., (top.) plain; de pied, broad stretch of calm waters. Plain te, f., complaint; de conseil de guerre, (mil. law) charge and specifications; loger, porter, to lodge a complaint. Plan, a., plane; angle, plane angle; carte — e, plain chart; Mercator's chart; concave, (opt.) plano-concave; curve, (opt.) plano-concave; figure e, plane figure; navigation e, plane sailing; nombre, a number containing but two factors; surface e, plane surface. Plan, m., plane, plane surface; plan, scheme, project, design; ground (as foreground, background) of a picture; tier (as of barrels); (top. drawing) ground plan, ground plot, (more specially) plot, plot, map of a small area of ground, detailed map; arrière, background; d'arrimage, (nav.) tier of the hold; 'automoteur, self-acting plane; cadastral, (sur v.) cadastral plat; de campagne, (mil.) plan of campaign; de combat, (min.) plane of collimation; de combat, (min.) plane of reference, reference plane; de construction, working drawing; s cotes, V. m,ethode des s cotes; coupe, sectional plan, plan and section; des cretes, (fort.) in defilading, the plane in which the crests of the work or works must lie; de de charge, discharge plane; — — de defilement, (fort.) plane of defilement, of defilement; de detail, plot or plan showing details; diametral, sectional elevation; directeur (des attaques), (siege) map or chart on which are plotted all the positions, trenches. Batteries, etc., in the siege of a place; directing directeur d'ensemble des attaques, v. directeur; directeur des attaques rapprochees, (siege) directing plan of the attack at close quarters; de direction, plane of direction; d'eau, the level of the water in a river; d'ecartement, plane of spread; d' enfilade, v. de revers; d' engagement, (mil.) c. o.'S plan for getting troops into action; d'ensemble, general plan (of a fort, etc.); d'epreuve, (elec.) proof plane; elre au , (mil. slang) to be in arrest; d' execution, plan of execution; working draw- ing, plan; faire le de, to survey; f air eV elevation d'un , to construct the eleva- tions of a plan; faire un , to draw, make a plan; faire lever le de^ to survey; des fibres invanables, neutral surface, plane of neutral fibers; de flexion, plane of flexion; defondation, foundation plane; des forces, force plan; • du foyer, focal plane; fuijant, vanishing plane; geometral , ground plan; de glissement, (steam) slide; geometrique, plan; graphique, any plan of a town, fort, building, to given scale; ■ de guerre, plan of war; horizontal, gronnd plan; horizontal plane; d'immersion, (torp.) plane of immersion; d' incidence, plane of incidence; income, inclined plane; de joint, (fond.) parting plane; levee d'un , survey; lever un , to make, draw, get up, a plan; lever des s, to survey; longitudinal , longitudinal plan; manoeuvre, engine plane; methode des s cotes, system in which elevations are represented solely by references on the ground plan (as in fortification drawing); "one- plane descriptive" (U. S. M. A.); de mire, (ball.) plane of sight; de mobilisation, (mil.) plan of mobilization; (fort.) plan of the measures necessary to put a fort in a good state of defense; de iiiveau, datum plane; parcellaire (du cadastre), v. s. v. parcellaire; plan 330 planchette plan perspcc^/, perspective plane; premier , foreground; , , , , „. Principal, general plan, principal plan, de projection, (ball.) Plane of projection; rampant, (fort.) Plane of slope; de reflexion, plane of reflection; de refraction, plane of refraction; releve, vertical projection of the roofs and other upper parts of a building; roof plan; relief, en relief, (top.) Relief map, map showing relief of ground; de repre, datum plane; de revers, (for.) Plane of reverse defilade; de rez, datum plane; second, middle ground; de site, (fort.) Plane of site (in defilading), rampant plane (parallel to and 1.5 meters below the plane of defilade); (ball.) Plane perpendicular to the plane of fire and containing the ligne de site; de site artificiel, (fort.) Plane of site on sloping ground; de symetrie, plane of symmetry; du tableau, directing plane; de terrain, plot; de tir, (ball.) plane of fire; de tir initial, (ball.) initial plane of fire; de liroir, (mach.) slide face; topographical map or plan; tracer un, to draw, make a plan; transversé, cross section; iroisitme, background; vertical exterieur, elevation; vertical interieur, sectional elevation; d visee, plane of collimation; d vol,hvue, d'oiseau, bird's-eye view. Planche, f., plank, board; shelf, plate; (nav.) gang plank; putting in port; (farr.) planch shoe; (ham.) foot rest (of a stirrup); (sm. a.) leaf of rear sight; (top.) plane table; armee de clous, (mil.) spiked board (accessory defense); aux armements, (art.) in a turret, equipment shelf; d'arrimage, (nav.) dunnage plank; d, bagages, (mil.) clothing shelf in a squad room; h bascule, tilting, rocking, plank; de caisson, (art.) board or plank for an ammunition wagon; de del, (mil.) top plank of the casing of a mine gallery, overhead, plank; circulaire, (siege) gabion bottom; 6 clous, V. armee de clous; de coffrage, (mil.) plank lining, sheathing; de cote, v. — porc-fourrage; cbtibre, (cons.) (in a roof) outer plank of A gutter; debarquer, (nav.) gang plank; b. dessin, drawing board; directrice, (fort.) wooden bottom, for making gabions; h effets, (mil.) equipment, clothing, shelf, in a squad room; d'embar cation, gang plank; entibre, full-sized plank; 8 d'entrevoux, (cons.) planks covering spaces between joists; faire, (of the sea) to be calm; faire la, to float, in swimming; (fig.) to lead the way; to show now to do anything; fausse b, mouler, (fond.) rolling-over board; defond, (fond.) molding board, bottom board; (poni.) flooring board of a pontoon; de friction, (mach.) friction-roll plank; grande, (nav.) main gang plank; de hausse, (sm. a.) sight leaf; jointive, sheet pile (feathered and grooved); jours de, (nav.) lay days; planche-Treorcépéc, footboard of a wagon; (art.) footboard; marieau h (mach.) drop hammer controlled by friction or geared rolls (the hammer head is attached to a board); minute, (top. drawing) engraved plate of a minute; mobile, loose plank; (sm. a.) movable leaf, leaf (of a sight); h mouler, (fond.) bottom, molding, board; de mulct, (farr.) planch shoe; a pain, bread tray; (Fr. a.) bread shelf in a squad room; porte-f outrage, (art.) sideboard for carrying forage (ammunition wagon); de reproduction, (sm. a.) guide plate (for shaping the stock); tt rHablissement, (gym.) plank fixed to a wall for exercising men in pulling themselves up; de roulis, (nav.) washboard; leeboard (of a berth); a irousser, (fond.) loam board. Planking, m., planking, boarding. Planking, v. a., to board, plank; to cover with planks; to floor; to lath. Planking, m., (cons.) floor, flooring (strictly a wooden floor); ceiling, covering, roof; framing on which the roofing rests; platform, stage; (har.) stirrup tread; (r. r.) engine driver's stand; (lech.) horizontal position of a stone; aire de, floor proper, surface of a floor; bois de, floor proper, surface of a floor; charge de, thickness added to a floor (to bring it up to the level of surrounding floors); de chargeement, (art., met.) loading platform; de del, (mil. min.) roof planks of a mine gallery; compartments, paneled floor; crené, hollow floor; d'une dès, apron; d'une ecluse, bottom of a sluice; faux, (cons.) false floor (to reduce the height of ceiling); sound boarding; defrise, parquetry floor; d'en haut, ceiling; Hour de, rubble floor; hourdis de, filling between joists; du lavoir, (met.) slime pit; ordinaire, floor made of full-sized planks; perdu, Y.faux; plein, a floor filled in solid (masonry, etc.) between joists; d'un pont, roadway of a bridge; a remplissage, v. plein; roulant, (r. r.) traveling platform; des vaches, (fam.) dry land, terra firma; voute, vaulted floor. plancher, v. n., (mil. slang) to be confined in the cells or guardroom. plancliette, f., small board; (ham.) lady's stirrup; (art.) crossbar, deflection bar (of a sight); (mil. min.) trap, box trap; (teleg. and gen.) wire board (in a telegraph office); (inst.) plane table; {mil.) cleaning board (leather equipment); aux armements, (art.) small equipment shelf (siege battery); h astiquer, (mil.) board for cleaning and polishing leather parts of equipment; de batter The, (art.) battery plane table (Fr. Art.); traversing, pointing, scale; deflection scale; calotte spherique, (inst.) plane table with spherical cup or bearm; de chargement, (art.) loading tray; de convergence, (inst.) circuniferentor; ii courbes d'egal angle de tir, (art.) a scale giving the angle of elevation for a given target and the bearing of the line from gun to target; decline, v. orienie; des derives, (art.) deflection leaf, deflection scale (of a sight); d, douiUe, (inst.) plane table with socket bearing or spindle; planchette planchee graduee de pointage, (art.) aiming scale; d'housse, (art.) sight leaf; d'inflammation, (art.) little tongue of wood used in some shrapnel or shell to facilitate the combustion of the burster and to prevent its caking; de lever f (inst.) plane table; d'objecté, (phot?) lens board; oric Intense, (inst.) plane table, oriented set to or on given bearings; photographique, (inst.) photographic plane table; portc-armaments, (art.) small equipment tray (of an ammunition chest); depression, (art.) in an ammunition chest, a strip or plank pressed down on the contents to keep them from moving; d, rhgleh curseur, (art.) a scale giving angles of elevation and the distance apart of the collars on a right cheek curseur, q, v.; de reperage, v. de tir; de soutien, any block or bit of wood, etc., placed under a tie or strap to assist in bearing the stress; de tir, (Fr. art.) range-laying scale (gives elevation, direction, charge, and time of flight; consists of a map, 1:20000, of the field of fire, suitably mounted, graduated, etc., to furnish the necessary indications); — (i trous, (sm.  m., plane (tree); de charron, spokeshave. Planer, v. a., to smooth, planish; (of a balloon) to soar over (a position, etc.); machine a, jointing machine. Planigraphe, m., (inst.) planigraph. Planimetre, m.,  (mil.) to set up or raise the standard, the flag (over a captured town, a work carried by assault, etc.;); Le piquet, to encamp, take up one's quarters. Planton, m., (mil.) orderly; Cheval, mounted orderly; De conseil de guerre, orderly of a court-martial; Etre de, to be on as orderly. Plaque, f., plate; slab; sheet of metal, leaf of metal, Star of an order; (met., etc.) back, back plate; (art.) face plate; (nav., fort.) armor plate; (sm. a.) sword-belt plate; part of guard surrounding the hand; (unif.) helmet-, cap-plate; (r. r.) sole (of a railway chair). Artillery, etc.; II. Miscellaneous. I. Artillery, etc.: en acier^ steel armor plate; d'apput, (art.) face plate; wheel guard^ d'appui de aosse, (art.) trail plate; d'appui mobile, (r.f. art.) spring bar; d'appui d'obturateur, (art.) obturator plate, gas plate; d^armons, (art.) foreguide plate; plaque d'arrSt, (art.) stop or keep plate of an am- mumtion box; de blindage^ armor plate; -— ^ boutonnihre(s), (unif.) end of shoulder (cuirass) strap; de butee, (art.) front part or face of the firing pm recess (canon b, balles) ; carree, (art.) trail transom plate; ——de ceinturon, (mil.) waist-belt plate; sword- belt plate; -— de coin, (art.) wedge plate of the Krupp fermeture; de combat, (nav.) shot plug; (en) compound, compound armor plate; de contact, (torp.) circuit-closing plate (of a bail-contac t circuit closer) ; de couche, (sm. a.) butt plate; de crosse, (art.) trail plate; de cuirasse, de cuirassement, armor plate; de culasse, (art.) breech plate, rear barrel plate (Hotchkiss,etc.); de declanchement, (art.) firing-pin plate (canon d balles, etc.); de dessous, (art.) bottom plate (of a trail); bottom axle plate; de dessus, (art.) top plate (of a trail); directrice, (r.f. art?) breechblock; d' embrasure, (fort.) port plate; d'epaulement, (Fr. art.) upper reenforce of the pry pole of the steel gin; d'epreuve, (art.) proof or test plate; d'extraction, (art.) base plate of Boker car- tridge, by which it was extracted; fausse d'appui, (art.) inserted face plate; enfer, iron armor plate; enfer et en acier, compound plate (armor); enfer forge, wrought-iron armor plate; enfer lamine^ laminated armor plate; en fonts durcie, chilled cast-iron armor plate; de front, (r.f. art.) front barrel plate; defondation, (art.^ base plate; s de garde-champetre, (mil. slang) old ser- geant's stripes; de garniture, (art.) axle strap; garnish plate; A godet, ( Fr. art.) sort of embarring or maneu- vering plate (obs.); de hausse, (art.) elevation plate or slide (German artillery); d'identite, (mil.) identification tag or plate; isolante, (art.) curved sheet of metal for- merly used with muzzle-loading rifle, sur- rounding rear of cylindrical part of projectile to prevent ballotting (obs.);. de large, steering nidder (of a torpedo); de lunette, (art.) pintle plate; mixte, compound armor plate; mortier a, v. s. v. mortier; en nickel-acier, nickel-steel armor plate; ii oreilles, (art.) metallic base plate of French bolte d, mitraille; hinge plate and lugs of a breech-loading gun; (sm. a.) repeating mechanism plate (of the Lebel rifle); de pivot, (art.) pivot jate; de plomb, (art.) leaden vent apron; de pont, (art.) deck armor plate; pontet, (art.) deck armor plate; pontet, (art.) trigger and plate; porte-cartouche, (art.) cartridge plate; de protection, (art.) projectile; de protection, (art.) face plate; de recouvrement, (art.) face plate; de recouvrement d'essieu, (art.) Top axle plate; de reperage, (art.) sort of deflection scale (German artillery); de semelle, (art.) swing, bedplate; surcemente, face-hardened armor plate; de tete, (art.) top or head plate of a gin; de tete, (art.) breast transom, front transom; de tir, (art.) breast transom, front transom; plaque de toiture, roof place of a Griison turret, etc.; de tuyhre, boss or back plate of a traveling forge; de tuyhre de contre-caur, boss or plate of a field forge; d'union, (pont.) assembling or joining plate. II. Miscellaneous: d'about, (r, r.) shoe, bedplate; d'accoupicmcnt, junction plate; antcrieure, {met.) front plate; d'appui, locking plate (wagons); {ham.) galling leather; d'arr/t, (elec.) terminal plate; d'arriere, back plate; d' assemblage, assembling plate or strap; junction plate; d'assise, socket of a coiled spring; d'assise pour rails, (r. r.) bedplate; d'dcant, front plate; en bois, veneer; de boue, mud guard, cuttoo plate; de battoir, (r. r.) buifer disk; de Ohio, (met.) (or simply chio) tap-hole plate (of a filing forge); cisaille, (mach.) shearing or cutting plate; de contr event, (met.) blast plate; de cylindre, imach.) cylinder cover; de dame, (met.) dam plate; diapkragme, division plate; disionctrice, disjunction plate; de'division, (mach.) division, index, plate; d'enclume, anvil face; entihre, (phot.) whole plate; entre les partes et les barres du/ourneau, dead plate, coking plate; excitatrke, (elec.) exciting plate, electrode; defeu, back of a chimney; -filiere, (mach.) draw plate; bar plate; de fixation, sole, bedplate, of an engine, a mav,hine; fixe, dead plate; defond, (met.) bottom plate; de fondation, (mach.) bedplate; foundation plate; sole plate; base plate; de foyer, (steam) furnace plate; defrein, (r. r.) brake block; de friction, friction plate; frottante, (mach.) slide-valve face; de frottement, friction plate; de frottement de I'essieu, linch plate; axle-tree clout; de frottement (de sassoire), (art.) sweep plate; de garde, (r. r.) axle guard plate; dejonction, connecting plate; d, lunettes, eye or lunette plate (of a cabestan de carrier)', de mire, (inst.) vane; pelliculaire, (phot.) film; d piton, plate and eye, plate and loop; de poulie, plate separating or inclosing the sheaves of a block; de recouvremeru, any strengthening plate, reenforce; axle strap or plate; cover plate (in general j, lap; lap strip (for a joint, etc.;; de renfort, reenforcing plate, stiffening plate; de rusiine, (met.) bacK plate; sensible, (phot.) sensitive plate; iisoupape, valve plate (forge bellows); soupie, (phot.) film; de siirete, guard plate; de terre, (elec.) ground plate; de ttte (des tubes), (steam) tube plate (boilers); tournante, (r. r.) turntable; de travail, (met.) working plate (of a firing forge); de trou de sel, mud-hole door (of a boiler); i tuJ)es, des tubes, tvimlair, tube plate (of a boiler); de tuyhre, (met.) twyer plate. Plaque, a., (hipp.) stiff, with little or no parotid channel (said of junction of head to neck). Plaque, v. a., to veneer, to plate, plate over; to lay down turf or sods; to lay on mortar or plaster; du bois, to veneer; feuilleh, veneer, veneering; du gazon, to sod, cover with sod or turf; du platre, to lay on a coat of plaster. Plaque, f., small plate, small disk; (sm. a.) stock plate of revolver; droite, (sm. a.) right stock; gauche, (sm. a.) left stock; de monture, (sm. a.) stock plate of a revolver. Plaque, m., stone casing. Plastron, m., breastplate, front cuirass; (fencer's) plastron; (macft.) drill plate; de cuirasse, breastplate; Manchette, sleeved plastron. Plastronner, v. n., (fenc.) to practice fencing, to practice feints, thrusts, eto. (i. e., against the teacher, who wears his plastron). Plat, a., flat, level; dead; (of boats) flat-bottomed; m., dish; plate; flat part of anything; flat (of the oar, of the sword); (met.) iron in plates or sheets; d'aviron, blade of an oar; de balance, scale of a balance; battreh e couture, v. s. v. couture; calme, dead calm; camarade de, messmate; carte e, plain chart; cheval, (hipp.) lank-sided horse; course e, flat race; de crosse, (sm. a.) part of stock opposite to the joue; eaux es, still waters (as distinguished from fountains); d'epee, (sm. a.) flat of a sword; exterieur, (sm. a.) lock side of a gunstock (obs.); faire ensemble, to mess together; hfond, flat-bottomed (of a boat); inter leur, (sm. a.) brass-side, interior side (obs.); de malades, (nav.) sick mess; materiel de, Mettre, to lay flat, flatten the oars; naud, V. s. v. neud; pays, flat, level country; souliers s, heelless shoes; — du sabre, flat of the sword. Platane, m., plane (tree and wood); d'Amerique, buttonwood; faux, sycamore-maple. plat-bord, m., (nav.) gunwale, plank sheer; covering board. plate, f., small flat-bottomed barge. plate, f., (cons.) entire foundation. plateau, m., v. aiter, tray; plate, disk, board, flange; (earth-) rammer; scale pan (of a balance); slab, thick plank; one of the two main beams that may be sawed out of a log; (mach.) bed of a machine; bed or table for the work; face plate of a lathe; piece performing the office of valve plate in Farcot's Corliss engine; (mil. min.) plate or slab covering the charge of a mine; shield of a fougasse; (art.) time scale of a fuse; (top.) plateau, table-land, flat-topped hill; (powd.) lignum-vitse granulator; d'arbre d, manivelle, (mach.) crank shaft d assemblage, (mach.) coupling flange; de buttoir, (r.r.) buffer disk; cannele, (art.) grooved board for carrying spikes, punches, etc., nailed to side of ammunition wagon; circulatre, (art.) dust guard (seacoast gun); de caur, the plate containing The heart proper of a log (faces tangent to heart); plateau, plâtre, collecteur, collecting plate; condenseur, condensing plate; conducteur, (mack.) wrist plate, rocking disk, motion disk; de cylindre, {steam) cylinder cover; de cylindre, inferieur (superieur), (steam) cylinder bottom (top); de distribution, (mach.) vibrating disk; valve plate in Farcot's Corliss engine; diviseur, (mach.) index plate; de foyer, (steam) hearth plate; de friction, (mach.) friction plate or disk; grand de petard, v. de petard; inferieur du cylindre, (steam) cylinder bottom; d'une machine, bedplate; maneuverable, (mach.) disk crank, crank disk, crank plate; mobile, (mach.) follower; a mors, (mach.) jawed chuck; de mortier a plaque, (Fr. a.) sole or bed of the mortier b, plaque; oscillant, (mach.) wrist plate; permut. ateur, (elcc.) switchboard; de petard, (mil.) board to which a petard is fixed; petit de pitard, (mil.) thin board laid over charge before fixing petard to its bed; de piston, (steam) piston top plate; de pointe, (art.) shoe of a gin; porte-pipes, (mach.) table (of piercing machine, planer, etc.); a roulis, (nav.) sewing tray; saverie du cylindre, (steam) cylinder top, front cylinder cover; de tampon, buffer disk; du, de, tour, (mach.) faceplate (of a lathe); tournant. (r. r.) turntable; a trous, (mach.) index plate; de la vis de pointage, (art.) elevating-screw bed, plate-bande, f., (cons.) platband, lintel; iron strap (for joining two beams, etc., end to end); iron rod; (carp.) casing, furring; (art.) cap square; fillet. Ting; (fort.) flat, circular border (of a turret); de baie, (cons.) lintel; de la bouche. plate-cheville, f., (art.) pintle plate (12½ gun, Gruson turret), flat pintle. plate-forme, f., platform (in general); mudsill of a bridge; (art.) platform; (carp.) pole plate; any timber 2 inches (or 4 inches) by 1 foot or more (length variable); (or) platform (as of a case- mated work); (poni.) carriage way; (r. r.) railroad truck; roadbed; (steam) seat of a slide valve; armer une, (art.) to mount a gun on its platform; de balance, platform of a weigh bridge; en bois, (art.) wooden platform; en caillebottis,  arrière, en eventail, (art.) played platform; defonnation, (cons.) sleepers; mine, (art.) a platform of concrete and of wood; de mortier, (art.) mortar platform; d'obusier, (art.) howitzer platform; ordinaire, (art.) rectangular platform; en pierre, (art.) stone platform; d'obusier, (art.) shifting pivot platform (80-", 100" guns); plate-forme de place, (art.) garrison platform; de pointage, (art.) aiming platform (sea- C03,Sty J ——h to prussienne, (art.) transportable platform (for siege guns); de roulage, (art.) truck; (art.) traveling platform, 1. e., a railroad truck serving as a gun platform; de sihge, (art.) siege platform; — - a tibier continu, (art.) siege platform, decked — The platform; b, tablier superposes, (Fr. art.) three-decked platform (ISSn^ni C.); en terre, (art.) gun bank; tournante, (r. r.) turntable; — volante, (siegre) literally, flying platform, i.e., three planks (under wheels and trail, respectively). Platolage, m., armor skin, interior skin (armor)- (pont.) floor of a bridge. plate-longe, f., (ham.) kicking strap; leading rein; hitching strap; lunging rein, sideline; (Fr. art.) breastband (buckling to the breeching). platine, f., terrace at the foot of a hill. platin, m., (hydr.) small bank, flat, awash at low tide. platine, f., plate, lock plate; (sm. a.) lock; (r. /. art.) lock, action block; m., (met.) platinum; b aiguille, (sm. a.) needle-gun lock; (en) arrière, (sm. a.) lock whose mainspring is behind the tumbler; back-action lock; (en) avant, (sm. a.) lock whose mainspring is in front of the tumbler (e.g., bar lock); corps de, (sm. a.) lock plate, lock frame (of a re-olver); b, double detente, (sm. a.) hair-trigger lock; de lumitre, (art.) A mite, (sm. a.) matchlock (obs.); b, percussion, (sm. a.) percussion lock (obs.); a pierre, (sm. a.) flutlock (obs.); de rail, (r. r. ) bedplate; rebondissante, (sm. a.) rebounding lock (re -ol\er); renversee, (sm. a.) back-action lock; b rouet, (sm. a.) wheellock (obs.); b silex, V. a pierre; spongieux, platinum sponge; de silex, safety device. platineur, v. a., (sm. a.) to lock a gun; (met.) to o.erlay (copper) with an amalgam of tin and mercury. platineur, (sm. a.) lock maker. plat-pays, m., (hydr.) large sand bank. piatrage, m., (cons.) plaster work; plastering; lath and plaster. plaster, m., rubbish of old walls, plaster, etc., from which saltpeter may be extracted . Plaster, plaster; gypsum; (in pl., cons.) plaster work on a house, (more esp.) moldings, cornices, etc.; alum, plaster treated with 2 percent of alum; amour du, unctuosity (of well-burnt plaster of Paris); batile le — —, to powder gypsum; stone, white plaster (freed from coals); carrihre, gypsum quarry; ciment, a variety of carbonate of lime, largely mixed with clay and iron oxide; clair, thin plaster (excess of water); cru, unbui'nt plaster; cuit, calcined plaster; deposg, plaster rubbish; enduit en, stucco; evente, weathered plaster; fin, white parget; fleur de, flowers of gypsum; gache, gypsum paste; gris, well-burnt plaster; gris, gray plaster (not freed from coals); gros, unsifted plaster; luisant, v. fin; plétre mouline, powdered plaster; noye, thin plaster ( pia.tre mouline, powdered plaster; noye, thin plaster ( plomb Excess of water; de Paris, plaster of Paris; (passi) au panier, coarse-sifted plaster; (passi) au sas, fine-sifted plaster; d, la pelle, v. fieur de; pierre, de, plaster stone; serre, stiff plaster (mixed with but little water); au tamis de sole, finest sifted plaster; vert, underburner plaster. piatrer, v. a., to plaster; (fig.) to patch, piece up. platreux, a., chalky. piatrier, m., plasterer. platrière, f., gypsum quarry. plein, a., full, whole, entire, complete; close-worked; thorough; solid (not hollow); (of animals) gravid; (art.) solid (of a projectile); en air. Out of doors; hois, (nav.) part of a ship above the water line; ftofs, close-grained wood; thick forest; boulet, (art.) solid shot (obs.); en e campaigne, out in the country; en champ, in the fields; en e deroute, (mil.) completely routed; d'eau, water-logged; fouet, V, s. v., fouet: en hiver, in the middle of winter; jarrets s, (Mpp.) broad houghs; jour —, a day of 24 hours; e lune, full moon; en e marche, (mil.) in full march; e mer, mer e, v. s. v., mer; mois, any month containing 30 or 31 days (as distinguished from mois cave, February); ovvrages en Bois, (carp.) glued work (i. e., not tenoned or doweled); e pression, (steam, etc.) full pressure; en e retraite, (mil.) in full retreat; e Vitesse, full speed. plein, m., full or down stroke of a letter; beach between high and low water mark; high water; full, full part, of anything; full cargo; , fully; absush pur eth. honorably acquitted; avoir son, to be fully laden (ship); battre son, (of the tide) to be at the full; d'un bois, etc., middle of a wood, etc.; dans le;, en, in the middle; d'une dent, (mach.) thickness of a tooth or cog; de la lune, high water; sur-joint, s sur joints, so as to break joints; de la lune, full of the moon; de la maree, high water; mettre dans le, mettre en, (t. p.) to hit the mark; d'un mur, mass of a wall; s des rayures, (art., sm. a.) lands; tant que vide, (in measuring areas) including windows; (mil.) with intervals. plein-cintre m., (arc en) Roman arch. pleine-eau, f., v. s. v., eau. pI6nipotentiaire, m., plenipotentiary; ministre, minister plenipotentiary. plet, m., (cord.) fake; faux, catch fake. pleuvoir, v. s. v. puits. pleuvoir, v. n., to rain; (fig.) to fall, come down (as bullets, shells); d, flots, to rain in torrents; par ondees, to be showery; a seaux, v. d, flots: a verse, to rain in torrents. pleyon, m., osier; twig. pli, m., fold; bend; plait; seam (as in soldering); reentrant angle (of a building); manner of folding a letter; cover, envelope (of a letter, etc.); official paper or document; (art.) clip of a case shot; (cord.) fake, coil, bight; de cable, (ham.) fake, coil (of a cable or rope). pil cachete, (nav.) sealed orders; charnihreh, v. s. v. charnière, de Vembouchure, (ham.) joint of a bit; de Vencolure, (hipp.) bend of a horse's neck; enfermer soule le v. mettre sous le; filer un, (cord.) to veer away some of the cable; de manoeuvre, v. de cable; mettre un cheval dans un beau, (man.) to make a horse arch his neck; mettre sous (le), to inclose (letters); du paturon, (hipp.) fold of the pastern; sous, herewith, inclosed; de terrain, (top.) inequality, fold, in the ground. pliable, a., flexible, bending, pliant. pliable, a., bending, flexible, pliable, fold- ing; m., folding chair, camp chair, camp stool. plier, v. a. n., to fold, fold. Up, do up; to bend, curve, sag, bow; to bring under; to yield, subnut, give way; to lose ground; (mil.) to give way; (nav.) to rim away, quit the combat (of a ship); bagage, (mil.) to decamp; to beat a retreat; a bloc, to fold double (in plate testing); a bloc, to bend over a block (test for various articles); un cheval, (man.) to break a horse; to bend a horse's head down to right or left, so as to give him a flexible neck; le cou d'un cheval, (man.) to give a horse a flexible neck; faire, to bend, curve; faire, ennemi, (man.) to force the enemy to lose ground, give way; la fortification au terrain, (fort.) to adapt a work to the site; les jarrets, (man.) to work the hocks (i.e., to be supple in the hocks); les reins, (man.) in galloping. To bring the croup down; les tentes, (mil.) to strike camp. 