noun. Any of several card games derived from whist, usually played by four people in two partnerships, in which trump is determined by bidding and the hand opposite the declarer is played as a dummy.

noun. A structure spanning and providing passage over a gap or barrier, such as a river or roadway.

noun. Something resembling or analogous to this structure in form or function.

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noun. The upper bony ridge of the human nose.

noun. The part of a pair of eyeglasses that rests against this ridge.

noun. A fixed or removable replacement for one or several but not all of the natural teeth, usually anchored at each end to a natural tooth.

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noun. A thin, upright piece of wood in some stringed instruments that supports the strings above the soundboard.

noun. A transitional passage connecting two subjects or movements.

noun. A crosswise platform or enclosed area above the main deck of a ship from which the ship is controlled.

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noun. A long stick with a notched plate at one end, used to steady the cue in billiards.

noun. The hand used as a support to steady the cue.

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noun. Any of various instruments for measuring or comparing the characteristics, such as impedance or inductance, of a conductor.

noun. An electrical shunt.

noun. An intramolecular connection that spans atoms or groups of atoms.

transitive verb. To build a bridge over.

transitive verb. To cross by or as if by a bridge.

To build a bridge or bridges on or over; span with a bridge: as, to bridge a river.

To make a bridge or bridges for.

Figuratively, to span or get over; serve as or make a way of passing or overcoming: as, conversation bridged the intervals of the play; to bridge over a difficulty.

To shorten; abridge.

In card-playing, to bend (a card) so that a confederate can cut the pack wherever the bent card is placed.

In wrestling, to make a bridge of the body by pressing the head and feet on the ground and bowing up the back, to prevent the opponent from securing a fall.

noun. A card game for four players, a variant of whist, called also (originally) bridge whist.

noun. An arrangement of circuits, electric or magnetic, whereby the bridge circuit connects from a point or one circuit to a point of another circuit, and thereby permits a comparison of the parts of the two circuits.

noun. In billiards: A notched piece of wood, attached to a long handle, used as a support for the cue when the ball is in such a position that the hand cannot conveniently be used as a rest.

noun. The thumb and forefinger used as a rest over which the billiard-cue glides. The best players now use the hooked fore-finger, infolding the small end of the cue.

noun. In mathematics, the crossing-place of two sheets of a Riemann's surface.

noun. A narrow-railed, movable plank extending across the flies of a theater: used in raising angels, fairies, etc., in spectacular plays, and worked by ropes and pulleys from the gridiron.

noun. A platform or scaffold hung by ropes, used by mechanics in painting or finishing walls.

noun. An arched easting fastened to the cover of a pump which guides the free end of the plunger or piston-rod.

noun. In mining: A platform on wheels running on rails for covering the mouth of a shaft or slope.

noun. A track or platform which passes over an inclined haulage-way and can be raised out of the way of ascending and descending cars.

noun. An air-crossing.

noun. A narrow strip, placed across an opening, for supporting something without closing too much of the opening. Also bridge-bar, bridge-piece.

noun. In a Dow composing-machine, the place on the raceway where the justification of a line of characters begins.

noun. The uppermost bridge, particularly in war-ships, of light construction, supported from below by open framework.

noun. Any structure which spans a body of water, or a valley, road, or the like, and affords passage or conveyance.

noun. The upper line or ridge of the nose, formed by the junction of the two nasal bones.

noun. In engraving, a board resting on end-cleats, on which the engraver rests his hand in working.

noun. A wall, generally made of fire-brick, which is built at both ends of a reverberatory furnace, to a certain height, in order to isolate the space in which the metallurgical operation is conducted.

noun. In gunnery, the two pieces of timber which connect the two transoms of a gun-carriage.

noun. In metallurgy, the platform or staging by which ore, fuel, etc., are conveyed to the mouth of a smelting-furnace.

noun. That part of a stringed musical instrument over which the strings are stretched, and by which they are raised above the sounding-board.

noun. Nautical, a raised platform extending from side to side of a steamship above the rail, forward of amidships, for the use and convenience of the officer in charge.

noun. A metal bar supported at one or both ends of a watch-plate, and forming a bearing for a part of the works.

noun. The balance-rynd of a millstone.

"• You will continue to remove the 6th string by gently removing the bridge pin by either using your string winder or a pair of pliers. bridge pins Stephanie Nieto 4"

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