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basket 'ba:-skit n. a vessel of platecUosier wickerwork, or other material, suspended or fixt at the lower part of a balloon or airship and occupied by the aeronaut or voyagers.

bat bset n. a mouselike Nocturnal mammal of the order chei- roptera, having membranous wings and flying with a pe- culiar quivering motion; a flittermouse ; a reremouse.

bate beet intr. [also spelt bait] (in falconry) beat the wings impatiently and flutter away from the perch; flutter.

bat-like 'bset,laik adj. like a bat or flittermouse; resembling that of a bat.

beak-stay 'biik,stee n. a stay or st^engthener forming a part of the beak or nose of an elongated balloon or airship, designed to prevent the beak collapsing or being crusht by the pressure of the air.

beam biim n. the side of an airship.

beam wind, a wind coming from one side ; a side-wind.

bear be:z intr. be directed in a certain way; tend.

bearing 'be:-zirj n. the direction in luhich any point lies from the point of reference, especially as mesured in degrees from one of the quarters of the compass : as, take one's *bearings.

bearing-surface 'be:-zin,SBzfis n. one of the surfaces of a flying^machine which bears, rests, or acts upon the air; a supporting^surface ; a sustaining^surface ; a wing^surface ; a spred of wing or sail.

bearing-wheel 'be:-zirj,iuiil n. one of the wheels attacht to the under part of a flying^machine, for bearing upon the ground as in starting.

beat biit n. a stroke; a recurrent stroke, as of a flapping wing or revolving propeller^blade.

beat biit tr. flap with force, as a wing.

bee-line 'bii^ain n. a straight line thru the air; a direct route thru the atmosfere^

bellows 'beloz, 'betes n. an appliance for producing a stjeng blast of air; a blower.

bellows propeller, a propeller which works on the prin- ciple of a pair of bellows, proposed for driving airships.

belly 'beli v.

1. tr. cause to stuell out; make bulge.

2. intr. bulge or stuell out.

bend bend n. the rounded angle, or curvd or bent upper fore?

part of a bird's wing; the carpal angle; the flexure: also

cald bend of the wing. bicycle-carriage 'bai-sika^kaezids n. a carriage or frame

with a set of bicycle^ioheels biit into the base of some fly-

ing^machines to aid in starting and alighting.

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