A hidden reservoir of provision (to secure it from bears) in Arctic travel.
Also, a reservoir for fish by the side of a river.
In a steamer, a reservoir from whence to feed the boiler with the warm water received out of the condenser; it also forms part of the discharge passage from the air-pump into the sea.
A reservoir for water placed in different parts of a ship, where a constant supply may be required.
In 1853 it was well out of town in the suburbs, and was known as Reservoir Square.
Let us first quote from an account of the raising of the first column: “The erection of the first column of the Crystal Palace took place on Reservoir Square at noon on Saturday.
A reservoir for the bile is provided by a small, membranous sack, called the gall bladder, located on the underside of the liver.
The kidneys pass their secretion by two slender tubes, the ureters, to a reservoir called the bladder (Fig.
I firmly believe it to be a veritable reservoir of wealth.
Here Clark stopped, glanced thoughtfully at Filmer, and poured out a glass of water, while the entire audience took an imaginary journey into the bush to the north in an attempt to discover the reservoir of wealth.
But the more general method for supplying water is that of leading it along the ground in channels or ditches to a small reservoir in one corner of a terraced field or garden, as seen in Fig.
Such a reservoir may be six to ten feet deep but can be completely drained only by pumping or by evaporation during the dry season.
About the reservoir the level field is seen to be thrown into beds with shallow furrows between the long narrow ridges.
The furrows are connected by a head drain around the margin of the reservoir and separated from it by a narrow raised rim.
The narrow lands of broadcasted wheat extend back from the reservoir toward the farmsteads which dot the landscape, and on the left stands one of the pump shelters near the canal bank.
A further plan for securing a carbide-feed consists in employing some extraneous driving power to propel a charge of carbide out of a reservoirinto the generator.
These air-gas producers, or at least the reservoir of volatile hydrocarbon, may be placed in an outbuilding, so that the risk of fire in the house itself is minimised.
As the bell falls a pin X moves the lever attached to the cock on the water- pipe, and starts, or shuts off, a current passing from a store-tank or reservoir to a decomposing vessel full of carbide.
Where the water reservoir is at the upper part of the lamp, and the liquid is exposed to the heat of the flame, fur will appear quickly if the water is hard.
Come along, Jack, and I'll race you to the Reservoir buildings!
I turned my horse up a bypath near the Sanjowlie Reservoir and literally ran away.
I was in haste to reach the Sanjowlie Reservoir and there make my assurance doubly sure.
I saw the Acting Committee of the Directors of the Bristol Waterworks Company regarding their intended reservoir on the land, which I was about to purchase, and stated to them, what I had seen in print concerning their intentions.
If the public reservoir is not filled by an intermittent flow, by sudden freshets, by obscure infiltrations of the mystic faculty, it is regularly and openly fed by the constant contributions of the normal faculties.
Then came the rain, in a literal deluge, as though the god of floods had turned over an entire reservoir with one twist of his mighty hand.
It ceased as though the reservoir had been tipped back again.
Everything that Christophe hounded down with his sarcasm and invective was infinitely dear to him: instinctively his choice pitched on the most conventional works: his soul was a reservoir of tearful and high-flown emotion.
It was like a flood of water accumulated in a reservoir for several months, until it should suddenly rush down, breaking all its dams.
His memory was a great reservoirin which all the beautiful waters of the heavens were collected.
It owes its place among the greatest structures of the age to the enormous capacity of the reservoircreated by it.
It has to its credit the highest dam, the longest tunnel and the largest storage reservoir for irrigation in the world.
A noteworthy feature of the metropolitan public water service was begun in 1896 in the Wachusett lake reservoirat Clinton, on the Nashua river.
Connected with the reservoir is an aqueduct, of which 2 m.
It is the largest municipal reservoir in the world[3], yet it is only part of a system planned for the service of the metropolitan area.
The hot-water reservoiris usually placed on an iron stand near the stove.
A vent connection from the reservoir to the tank in attic, or, in the event of no tank being used, to the roof above, is common as a guard against extra steam pressure.
The reservoir water in or near the field where the indigo plant is cultivated, is prepared, in lower Louisiana, by digging a canal from eighty to one hundred feet long, and 25 or 30 feet wide.
These floods will rise fifty feet, and the basin then becomes a great reservoir and storage-ground for the surplus waters, though the levee system has much restricted this.
The older view, still prevalent to-day in popular writings, made the brain the reservoir of physical stimuli, which come from the sense organs to the cortex of the brain hemispheres.
On the other hand, contact with the greater will must open the whole reservoir of suppressed energies, and this outbreak of hidden forces may work towards the regeneration of the whole psychophysical system.
Fountain pen, a pen with a reservoir in the handle which furnishes a supply of ink.
Defn: An apparatus for raising a liquid by pressure of air or steam in a reservoir containing the liquid.
Stylographic pen, a pen with a conical point like that of a style, combined with a reservoir for supplying it with ink.
Engineering) Defn: A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
The cistern or reservoir made at the lowest point of a mine, from which is pumped the water which accumulates there.
A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc.
Fore bay, a reservoir or canal between a mill race and a water wheel; the discharging end of a pond or mill race.
