VOCABULARY. 



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cran d'arret, catch. 



crayon de charbon, blue black. 



A well-burnt and levigated charcoal 

 prepared from vine-twigs. 



creosoter, to creosote. 



To treat with creosote, a substance 

 prepared from wood-tar. 



creuset, crucible, melting-pot, 

 creux (d'un navire), depth. 

 adj. hollow, concave, cored, 

 cristallin, crystalline, 

 croise, at right angles. 

 croisillon, cross-bar, 

 croquis, rough sketch. 

 cuiller a pot, ladle. 

 cuivrage, coppering, copper- 

 sheathing. 



cuivreux, cupreous. 



Having the properties of copper : 

 consisting of or containing copper. 



culasse du cylindre, cylinder-head 



culbuteur, tumbler. 



culee, abutment. 



culot, residuum, bottom. 



cursometre, pedometer. 



An instrument by which paces an 

 numbered as a person walks ; the dis 

 tance is thus approximately recorded. 



curviligne, curvilinear. 

 cyanure d'or, cyanide of gold, 

 cylindre, cylinder, roller, roll. 

 bouilleur, heating retort. 



homogene, solid cylinder. 



piston, piston-cylinder. 

 cylindrique, cylindric, cylindrical 



D6bit, output. 



d^biter, to produce, put out; to 

 saw, cut up timber. 



dblais, rubbish, earth dug from 

 an excavation. 



d^brayage, disengaging, discon- 

 necting, throwing out of gear. 



debrayer, to disconnect, disen- 

 gage, throw out of gear. 



draper, to scour. 



d^doubler, to separate, to decom- 

 pose. 



deferler, to break. 



d6formable, deformable. 



Capable of change of form. 



degagement, disengagement, out- 

 flow, escape. 



de chaleur, evolution of heat, 

 (se) degager dans, to escape into. 

 demarrage, starting (a train, etc.). 

 denivellation, change of level. 



deplacement, shifting, displace 



ment. 

 (d'un navire), displacement 



draught. 



dej>6t, sediment, deposit, settings 

 derivation, shunt, earth-commu 



nication, derivation. 



Shunt is a conductor joining twi 



Soints in an electric circuit and form 

 ig a path through which a part of th 

 current will pass. 



(en) derivation, in shunt, in par 



allel or multiple-arc system. 

 (fil de) derivation, shunt-wire. 

 dSsengrener, to throw out o 



gear, to disengage, to uncoupl 



wheels. 

 desservir un appareil, to run 



work a machine. 

 destination, use, application. 

 dStremper, to soften, to anneal 



moisten, slack. 



