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Home Dictionary Name: self adjusting Page 1 of about 5 results (0.004 seconds)Self adjusting
Capable of assuming a desired position or condition with relation to other parts under varying circumstances without requiring to be adjusted by hand said of a piece in machinery...
Prink
To dress or adjust ones self for show to prank...
Settling
The act of one who or that which settles the act of establishing ones self of colonizing subsiding adjusting etc...
Self contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
A portable device to allow divers to breathe while under water consisting of one or two tanks of compressed air which are strapped onto the back of the diver and are connected by tubing to a mouthpiece through which the diver receives the air from the tanks at rate adjustable by a valve called also SCUBA SCUBA gear or SCUBA apparatus...
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
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