Word Meanings - CONDUITSYSTEMCONDUITRAILWAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A system of electric traction, esp. for light railways, in which the actuating current passes along a wire or rail laid in an underground conduit, from which the current is "picked up" by a plow or other device fixed to the car or electric locomotive. Hence Conduit railway.

• Picket
  A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.
• Pickpocket
  One who steals purses or other articles from pockets.
• Systematize
  To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas.
• Fixedly
  In a fixed, stable, or constant manner.
• LIGHTARMED
  Armed with light weapons or accouterments.
• Lighten
  To descend; to light.
• OTHERGUISEOTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• Lighthouses
  of Lighthouse
• Lighty
  Illuminated.
• Pickaback
  On the back or shoulders; as, to ride pickback.
• Picketed
  of Picket
• Pickpurse
  One who steals purses, or money from purses.
• Deviceful
  Full of devices; inventive.
• Systematizer
  One who systematizes.
• Fixedness
  The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness.
• LIGHTBOAT
  Light-ship.
• Lightened
  of Lighten
• OTHERWHILEOTHERWHILES
  At another time, or other times; sometimes; [Archaic] Weighing otherwhiles ten pounds and more. Holland.
• 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.

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