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’ba:-skit. a ve el of platedzozier wickerwork, or other material, suspended or fixt at the lower part of a balloon or airship and eccupied by the aeronaut or veyagers. bat bet x. a mouses like nocturnal mammal of the order cheireptera, having membranous wings and flying with a peculiar quiverrng motion; a flittermouse; a reremouse. bate beet inti. [also spelt bait] (an falconry) beat the wings impatiently and flutter away from the perch; flutter. bat-like ‘bet,latk adj. like a bat or fl1ttermouse; resembling that of a bat. beak-stay ‘brik,stee 1. a stay or styengthener forming a part of the beak or nose of an elengated balloon or airship, designed to prevent the beak collapstrng or being crusht by the pre ure of the air. beam brim 7. the side of an airship. beam wind, a wind coming from one side; a side-wind. bear be:z inti. be directed 1n a certain way; tend. bearing ‘’be:-zin x. the dzrrection in which any point lies from the point of reference, especially as mesured in degrees from one of the quarters of the compa : as, take one’s *bearings. bearing-surface ‘be:-c1n,sezfis 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 spied of wing or sail. bearing-wheel ’be:-zin,wiil ». one of the wheels attacht to the under part of a fly rin gem a chine, for bearrng upon the ground as in starting. beat brit ». a stroke; a recurrent stroke, as of a flapping ‘ wing or revelving propeller-blade. beat brit tr. flap with force, as a wing. bee-line ‘biilarn n. a straight line thru the air; a direct route thru the atmosfere, bellows ‘betoz, ‘betas n. an appliance for producing a stgeng blast of air; a blower. bellows propeller, a propeller which works en the prinezple of a pair of bellows, proposed for driving airships. belly ‘bel i v 4. tr. cause ta swell out; make bulge. 2. inti. bulge or swell out. bend bend ». 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. bicyele-carriage ‘bai-srko},kezid3 mn. a carriage or frame with a set of bicycl-wheels bilt into the base of some flying-machines to aid in startrng and alighting.