Box Kite - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: box kiteBox kite
A kite invented by Lawrence Hargrave of Sydney Australia which consist of two light rectangular boxes or cells open on two sides and fastened together horizontally Called also Hargrave kite or cellular kite...
Eddy kite
A quadrilateral tailless kite with convex surfaces exposed to the wind This kite was extensively used by Eddy in his famous meteorological experiments It is now generally superseded by the box kite...
Box tail
In a flying machine a tail or rudder usually fixed resembling a box kite...
check-kiting
check-kiting : the practice of drawing on uncollected funds during the time needed to clear a check deposited in a bank esp. if the check is worthless called also kiting NOTE: Check-kiting typically works this way: a check drawn on insufficient funds in one bank is deposited in a second bank, and the funds represented by the check are immediately withdrawn from the second bank. The money is ultimately deposited in the first bank to cover the check before it clears, which usually takes several days. ...
kiting
kiting : check-kiting ...
Kite
To raise money by ldquokitesrdquo as kiting transactions See Kite 6...
Finbat kite
same as Eddy kite...
boxed
enclosed in or set off by a border or box as boxed sections of the report boxed announcements in the newspaper...
jury box
jury box 1 : the usually enclosed place where the jury sits in a courtroom compare bar, bench, dock, sidebar, stand 2 : a box from which the names of prospective jurors are drawn by chance : jury wheel ...
Box
A tree or shrub flourishing in different parts of the world The common box Buxus sempervirens has two varieties one of which the dwarf box Buxus suffruticosa is much used for borders in gardens The wood of the tree varieties being very hard and smooth is extensively used in the arts as by turners engravers mathematical instrument makers etc...
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