proving pump (proving pump)

A special form of force-pump combined with a pre ure gage for testing the strength of boilers, tubes, etc., by means of water-pre ure. Provins rose. The cabbage-rose. Also Pro vincial rose. See provincial2. provision (pro-vizhʻon), n. [ The direful spectacle of the wreck.. I have with such provision in mine art So safely ordered. Shak ., Tempest, i. 2. 28. 2. The act of providing, or making previous preparation. Five days we do allot thee, for provision To shield thee from diseases of the world. Shak ., Lear, i. 1. 176. 3. A measure taken beforehand; something arranged or prepared in advance; a preparation; provident care. For great and horrible punishments be appointed for thieves, whereas, much rather, provision should have been made that there were some means whereby they might get their living. Sir T. More , Utopia (tr. by Robinson), i. To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature. Sir T. Browne , Urn-burial, v. Marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune. Jane Austen , Pride and Prejudice, xxii. 4. Accumulation of stores or materials beforehand; a store or stock provided. There is a store house in the Citadell, wherein is kept provision of corne, oyle, and other things. Coryat, Crudities, I. 124. IMG:content-1180.png:[blocks in formation] This first day I had not taken care to have any provisions brought, and desiring the man that was sent with me to bring me some bread, he went and brought me of such fare as they have, and I dined in the temple. Pococke , Description of the East, I. 90. I had furnished the stranger Turks with water and pro vision at my own expence, when cro ing the desert. Bruce , Source of the Nile, I. 191. 6. In law, a stipulation; a rule provided; a distinct clause in an instrument or statute; a rule or principle to be referred to for guidance: as, the provisions of law; the provisions of the constitution. It is sometimes used of unwritten as well as of written laws and constitutions. Such persons would be within the general pardoning power, and also the special provision for pardon and amnesty contained in this act. Lincoln , in Raymond, p. 202. All the three [archdeacons] had, by the provisions of the cathedral statutes, dispensation from residence whilst they were away at the schools. Stubbs , Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 140. 7. pl. Certain early or medieval English statutes. See phrases below.-8. In eccles. law, promotion to office by an ecclesiastical superior; especially, appointment by the Pope to a see or benefice in advance of the next vacancy, setting aside the regular patron's right of nomination. Canonical provision consists of designation, collation or institution, and installation. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the Pope made frequent provisions to bishoprics and livings in England, but these acts were strenuously resisted. See Statute of Provisors, under provisor. The weakne of Edward II. and the exigencies of the papacy emboldened Clement V. and his succe ors to apply to the episcopal sees the system of provision and reservation. Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 384. Provisions made in the Exchequer. See Statute of Rutland, under statute. - Provisions of Merton, an English statute of 1235-6 (20 Hen. III.), so called because made at Merton, relating to bastardy, dower, common of pasture, appearance by attorney in local courts, etc. Also called statute of Merton. - Provisions of Oxford, in Eng. hist., certain articles enacted by the Parliament at Ox ford in 1258. See Mad Parliament, under madı. Pro visions of the Barons, or Provisions of Westminster, in Eng. hist., certain ordinances i ued by the barons in 1259, which provided for the reform of various abuses. =Syn. 2. Providence, Prudence. See wisdom. provision (pro-vizh'on), v. t. [ It was also resolved to notify the Governor of South Carolina that he might expect an attempt would be made to provision the fort. Lincoln , in Raymond, p. 140. 4806 provisional (pro-vizh'on-al), a. [= F. pro visionnel = Sp. Pg. provisional = It. provisio nale; as provision + -al.] Provided for present need or for the occasion; temporarily established; temporary: as, a provisional regulation; a provisional treaty. It was agreed to name a provisional council, or regency, who should carry on the government, and provide for the tranquillity of the kingdom. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 19. Provisional conce ion, in the parts of the United States acquired from Mexico, the first act of Mexican authorities in granting land. It was subject to further action, notably the definite location of the property, which was generally accomplished by the "extension of title" or "delivery of juridical po e ion." - Provisional injunction. Same as ad interim injunction (which see, under injunction ). - Provisional judgment, a conclusion admitted for the time being, though affected with doubt which it is expected may be cleared up. - Provisional remedy, in law, a remedy, as arrest, attachment, tem porary injunction, and receiver, intended to restrain the person of the debtor or property in question until judgment. provisionally (pro-vizh'on-al-i), adv. In a provisional manner; by way of provision; temporarily; for a present exigency. The abbot of St. Martin was born,. was baptised, and declared a man provisionally [till time should show what he would prove]. Menage, quoted in Locke, Human Understanding, III. vi. [§ 26. provisionary (pro-vizh'on-a-ri), a. [ Public forms of prayer, whose design is of universal extent, and provisionary for all public, probable, feared, or foreseen events. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), II. 274. 2. Containing a provision; giving details of provisions. The preamble of this law, standing as it now stands, has the lie direct given to it by the provisionary part of the act. Burke , American Taxation. 3. Provisional; provided for the occasion; not permanent. provision-car (pro-vizh'on-kär), n. A railroad car provided with refrigera refrigerating apparatus for the preservation of perishable products during transportation. Cold air caused to circulate over ice and over the articles to be kept cool is usually the means employed for cooling the substances. The interiors of the cars are kept tightly closed, and are protected from external heat by non-conducting materials. provision-dealer (pro-vizh'on-dē"lėr), n. Same as provision - merchant. provisioner (pro-vizh'on-er), n. One who furnishes provisions or supplies. Among other provisioners who come to your house in Venice are those ancient peasant-women who bring fresh milk in bottles. Howells , Venetian Life, vii. provision-merchant (pro-vizh'on-merchant), A general dealer in articles of food, as n. hams, butter, cheese, and eggs. proviso (prō-vīʻzō), n. [So called from its being usually introduced in the original Latin wording by the word proviso, 'it being provided'; L., abl. sing. neut. of provisus, pp. of providere, provide: see provide. Cf. provided.] 1. A clause making what precedes conditional on what follows; a provision or article in a statute, contract, or other writing, by which a condition is introduced; a conditional stipulation that affects an agreement, law, grant, etc. He doth deny his prisoners, But with proviso and exception, That we at our own charge shall ransom straight His brother-in-law, the foolish Mortimer. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., i. 3. 78. I was to be the young gentleman's governor, but with a proviso that he should always be permitted to govern himself. Goldsmith, Vicar, xx. 2. Naut., a stern-fast or hawser carried to the shore, to steady a ship. - Trial by proviso, in law, a trial at the instance of the defendant in a case in which the plaintiff, after i ue joined, does not proceed to trial, when by the practice of the court he ought to have done so. Imp. Dict. Wilmot proviso, in U. S. hist., an amendment to a bill which appropriated money for the purchase of territory from Mexico during the course of the Mexican This amendment was introduced in the House of war. IMG:content-1181.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1182.png:[blocks in formation] ployed in our statutes, viz. one that sued to the Court of Rome for a provision. A provision meant the providing of a bishop or any other person with an ecclesiastical living by the pope before the death of the actual incumbent. Piers Plowman (ed. Skeat), II. 38, notes. Whoever disturbs any patron in the presentation to a living by virtue of any papal provision, such provisor shall pay fine and ransom to the king at his will, and be imprisoned till he renounces such provision. Black stone, Com., IV. viii. Statute of Provisors, an English statute of 1351, designed to prevent the Pope from exercising the right of provision in England. Subsequent statutes of 1390 and other years, in furtherance of the same design, are known by the same name. provisorily (prō-vizor-i-li), adv. In a provisory manner; conditionally. This doctrine can only, therefore, be admitted pro visorily . Sir W. Hamilton . [ provisor provisors hipt (pro-vizor-ship), n . + -ship .] The office of provisor. A worthy fellow h' is; pray let me entreat for The provisor ship of your horse. Webster, Duche of Malfi, i. 2. = provisory (pro-vizor-i), a. [= F. proviso ire Sp. Pg. proviso rio = It. provvisorio, provisor, a provider): see provide, provisor.] 1. Serving to provide for the time; temporary; provisional. A new omnipotent unknown of democracy was coming into being, in presence of which no Versailles Government either could or should, except in a provisory character, continue extant. Carlyle , French Rev., I. iv. 1. 2. Containing a proviso or condition; conditional. – Provisory hoop. See hoop1. n. provocation, provocaci provocable (pro-võʻka-bl), a. [ = The unjust provocation by a wife of her husband, in consequence of which she suffers from his ill-usage, will not entitle her to a divorce on the ground of cruelty. Bouvier . 2. Anything that excites anger; a cause of anger or resentment. By meanes of prouocacion on eyther party vsed, the Romaynes i ued oute of the cytie and gaue batayl to the Brytons. Fabyan , Chron., I. Ixiv. For when I had brought them into the land,. there they presented the provocation of their offering [i. e., to false gods]. Ezek. xx. 28. O the enormous crime Caused by no provocation in the world! Browning , Ring and Book, I. 199. 31. An appeal to a court or judge. Nought with stondyng that I herde nevere of this matier no maner lykly ne credible evidence unto that I sey your lettre and the instrument, yet I made an appell and a procuracie, and also a provocacion , at London, longe biforn Paston Letters , I. 25. Cristema e. A provocation is every act whereby the office of the judge or his a istance is asked: a provocation including both a judicial and an extrajudicial appeal. Ayliffe , Parergon. 4. Incitement; stimulus. I thought it but my duty to add some further spur of provocation to them that run well already. John Robinson , in New England's Memorial, p. 25. It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialne of the street to be perpetual suggestions and provocations . Thoreau , Walden, p. 110. The provocation, the time of the Jews' wanderings in the wilderne , when they roused the anger of God by their sins. Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderne , when your fathers tempted me. Ps. xcv. 8, 9.