Nobody said anything for some time; nobody stirred, except that Handy Solomon, his steel claw removed from its socket, whittled and tested, screwed and turned, trying to fix the hook so that, in accordance with the advice of Percy Darrow, it would turn either way.

At the end of this yoke is a round iron projection, made to fit into a socket in the upper rave of the boat.

Cold, poignant, glittering as steel, it rested upon a socket of the repulsive hue of jaundiced ivory, with no vestige of a foot or anything to relieve its naked horror as, rigid and lifeless, yet plainly with a mighty force behind it, it pointed at the magician's heart.

Their eyes were barely visible through a long perspective of socket, the prominence of their noses was lost in the puffiness of their bloated cheeks, and their heads were set almost directly on their bodies with merely folds of flesh where the neck and chin are usually found.

Then, when he had served it and left, Goslin rose, and, crossing to the door, pushed the little brass bolt into its socket.

cuja, f., socket, lance-bucket.

The top of the piston rod is secured with a cutter into a socket with jaws, through the holes of which a cross head passes, which is embraced between the jaws by the small end of the connecting rod, while the ends of the cross head move in guides.

The external diameter of the socket by which this cap is attached to the piston rod is 3-5/16 inches.

The diameter of the air pump rod is 1-1/2 inch, the external diameter of the socket encircling the rod is 2-1/8 inches, and the depth of the socket 4-1/2 inches from the centre of the cross head.

The diameter of the air pump rod is 1-1/2 inch, the external diameter of the socket encircling the rod is 2-1/8 inches, and the depth of the socket 4-1/2 inches from the centre of the cross head.

The depth of the cutter for attaching the socket to the rod is 1 inch, and its thickness 5/16 inch.

The valve rod is three fourths of an inch in diameter, and the mortice is connected to the valve rod by a socket 1 inch long, and 1-1/8 inch diameter, through which a small cutter passes.

the hub D' having a socket (c) into which the spindle (s) of the governor is screwed; the end (d) of the hub D forming a journal or bearing, with a bevel wheel on its extremity to convey motion from the crank-shaft gearing to the governor and cut-off.

Motion is communicated by gearing from the crank-shaft to the bevel wheel on the piece (d) on the end of the hub D, and is communicated to the spindle of the governor, which is screwed into the socket on D'.

This slowly rolled in its socket, as she bent over it.

Don't you think it will be saferfor the women-folksjest to wait till mornin', afore you put that j'int into the socket?" Colonel Sprowle, who had been called by a special messenger, spoke up at this moment.

A socket and groove for the cross, and the cross itself, with its shaft broken, are the only remains of this venerable tomb, on which Risdon says there was an inscription, but now no traces of it are visible.

It gropes its way to the ruby and picks it up and screws it into a socket in the forehead.

Who can forget that, when despair was the Colonists' daily bread, when nought but the energy and genius of Smitha man of very ordinary name, but of no ordinary characterkept hope flickering in its socket, an attack of Indians made him a prisoner, and left them hopeless.

In some of them the light of the Gospel has been quenched utterly, and in others it lingers like a candle flickering down into the socket.

Ken slipped it out of its socket and gave it him.

The feeble lamp of life was flickering in the socket, and the pulses of the aged woman stood still.

Her son supported her in his arms, the feeble lamp of life flickered a moment in its socket, there was a little struggle, and that pure breast lay free from the care or burden of life.

The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket; a passage not only beautiful in itself but dramatically true, in the mouth of the bereaved mother who utters it, to that human instinct which generalizes a private sorrow into a universal law.

Sir G.Young translates: 'Their cuissart-studs up to the socket braced' boutoir, the sharp spike on the knee-piece. crible.