Lighthouse

A tower or other building with a powerful light at top erected at the entrance of a port or at some important point on a coast to serve as a guide to mariners at night a pharos...

Something inclosing a light and protecting it from wind rain etc sometimes portable as a closed vessel or case of horn perforated tin glass oiled paper or other material having a lamp or candle within sometimes fixed as the glazed inclosure of a street light or of a lighthouse light...

VerbarFanal

A lighthouse or the apparatus placed in it for giving light...

Carcel lamp

A French mechanical lamp for lighthouses in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork...

Engineer Corps

In the United States army the Corps of Engineers a corps of officers and enlisted men consisting of one band and three battalions of engineers commanded by a brigadier general whose title is Chief of Engineers It has charge of the construction of fortifications for land and seacoast defense the improvement of rivers and harbors the construction of lighthouses etc and in time of war supervises the engineering operations of the armies in the field...

Holophote

A lamp with lenses or reflectors to collect the rays of light and throw them in a given direction used in lighthouses...

Pharology

The art or science which treats of lighthouses and signal lights...

Beacon

Beacon-[fr. beacen, A.S., a sign, whence beckon, to nod], a light-house, or sea-mark, formerly used to alarm the country, in case of the approach of an enemy, but now for the guidance of ships at sea. The Trinity House was empowered by 8 Eliz. C. 13 to set up any beacons or sea-marks wherever they should be deemed necessary (see 10 & 11 Vict. c. 27), and has now the superintendence and management of all lighthouses, buoys, and beacons, by s. 634 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894....

Charges

Charges, expenses, costs. A trustee is entitled as a matter of right to his costs, charges and expenses properly incurred in relation to the trust, and they constitute a first charge on the trust property, both capital and income; see Stott v. Milne, (1884) 25 Ch D 710.Means any amount which may be demanded as a price for the rendering of some service or as price of some goods. Sree Gajanana Motor Transport Co. Ltd. v. State of Karnataka, (1977) 1 SCR 665: (1977) 1 SCC 37: AIR 1977 SC 418 (419).Includes all taxes, Shroff and Co. v. Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay, 1989 Supp (1) SCC 347.--The term 'charges' must be read ejusdem generis taking colour from the succeeding terms- rates, duties and taxes, Nagrik Upbhokta M. Manch v. Union of India, (2002) 5 SCC 466: AIR 2002 SC 2405 (2411). [Kerosene (Restriction on Use and Fixation of Ceiling Price) Order, 1993, clause 2(d)]The word 'charges' in Rule 7(1) should be given a wider meaning as denoting the accusations or imputations aga...

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland, that part of Ireland other than the Irish Free State. By the Government of Ireland Act, 1926, s. 1, Northern Ireland consists of six counties: Antrim, Armagh; Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone, including boroughs of Belfast ad Londonderry, with (1) a representation of 13 members (including one from the Queen's University of Belfast) in the Parliament of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland (see IMPERIAL Parliament), and (2) a Parliament of Northern Ireland, consisting of the King, a Senate and a House of Commons. The supreme authority of the Imperial Parliament is preserved. The Royal Assent is given to Bills by the Governor of Northern Ireland. The Senate consists of 24 members, 22 elected by the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, and 2 (as ex-officio members), the Lord Mayor of Belfast and the Mayor of Londonderry. The House of Commons consists of 52 members. Certain legislative powers are reserved for the Imperial Parliament; see ss. 4 et seq. Of the A...

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