curatorship

[Eng. curator; -ship.] The office of a curator. ( Ogilvie.) IMG:content-1578.png:[blocks in formation] p. 260. 2. Paving: The edge-stone of a sidewalk, or trot toir; the kerb. 3. Hydraulic Engineering: (1) A stoned or boarded structure around a well. to keep back the surrounding earth. Iron curbs are pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; go, pot, curb-beam constructed of boiler-iron or of cast-iron segments bolted together, rings being added at the top as the structure descends. (2) A boarded structure to contain concrete, which hardens and acts as a pier or foundation. (3) The outer casing-wheel of a turbine. It is a cylinder inserted into the floor of the forebay, inclosing the wheel which rotates within. (4) A curved shrouding which confines the water against the floats or buckets of a Scoop-wheel or Breast-wheel (q. v.). (5) The inclosure which leads water from a forebay to a water-wheel. Also called a Mantle. 4. Carpentry: (1) The wall-plate at the springing of a dome. (2) The circular plate at the top of a dome into which the ribs are framed. (3) The wall-plate on the top of the permanent portion of a wind-mill, on which the cap rotates as the wind veers. 5. Soap Manuf ., .: An inclined circular plate around the margin of a soap or salt kettle, to return what boils over. 6. Civil Engin .: A breast-wall or retaining wall to hold up a bank of earth. 7. Farr .: (For definition see extract.) "There are often injuries to particular parts of the hock-joint. Curb is an affection of this kind. It is an enlargement at the back of the hock, three or four inches below its point It is either a strain of the ring like ligament which binds the tendons in their place, or of the sheath of the tendons; oftener, however, of the ligament than of the sheath. Any sudden action of the limb of more than usual violence may produce it, and therefore horses are found to 'throw out curbs ' after a hardly-contested race, an extraordinary leap, a severe gallop over heavy ground, or a sudden check in the gallop Curbs are generally accompanied by considerable lamene at their first appearance, but the swelling is not always great. They are best detected by observing the leg sideway." - Youatt: The Horse , p. 369.