Bridge n.
 1. A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other.
 2. Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.
 3. Mus. The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument.
 4. Elec. A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit.
 5. A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall.
 Aqueduct bridge. See Aqueduct.
 Asses' bridge, Bascule bridge, Bateau bridge. See under Ass, Bascule, Bateau.
 Bridge of a steamer Naut., a narrow platform across the deck, above the rail, for the convenience of the officer in charge of the ship; in paddlewheel vessels it connects the paddle boxes.
 Bridge of the nose, the upper, bony part of the nose.
 Cantalever bridge. See under Cantalever.
 Draw bridge. See Drawbridge.
 Flying bridge, a temporary bridge suspended or floating, as for the passage of armies; also, a floating structure connected by a cable with an anchor or pier up stream, and made to pass from bank to bank by the action of the current or other means.
 Girder bridge or Truss bridge, a bridge formed by girders, or by trusses resting upon abutments or piers.
 Lattice bridge, a bridge formed by lattice girders.
 Pontoon bridge, Ponton bridge. See under Pontoon.
 Skew bridge, a bridge built obliquely from bank to bank, as sometimes required in railway engineering.
 Suspension bridge. See under Suspension.
 Trestle bridge, a bridge formed of a series of short, simple girders resting on trestles.
 Tubular bridge, a bridge in the form of a hollow trunk or rectangular tube, with cellular walls made of iron plates riveted together, as the Britannia bridge over the Menai Strait, and the Victoria bridge at Montreal.
 Wheatstone's bridge Elec., a device for the measurement of resistances, so called because the balance between the resistances to be measured is indicated by the absence of a current in a certain wire forming a bridge or connection between two points of the apparatus; -- invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone.
 Fly·ing a.  Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid movement.
 Flying army Mil. a body of cavalry and infantry, kept in motion, to cover its own garrisons and to keep the enemy in continual alarm. --Farrow. --Flying artillery Mil., artillery trained to rapid evolutions, -- the men being either mounted or trained to spring upon the guns and caissons when they change position.
 Flying bridge, Flying camp. See under Bridge, and Camp.
 Flying buttress Arch., a contrivance for taking up the thrust of a roof or vault which can not be supported by ordinary buttresses. It consists of a straight bar of masonry, usually sloping, carried on an arch, and a solid pier or buttress sufficient to receive the thrust. The word is generally applied only to the straight bar with supporting arch.
 Flying colors, flags unfurled and waving in the air; hence: To come off with flying colors, to be victorious; to succeed thoroughly in an undertaking.
 Flying doe Zool., a young female kangaroo.
 Flying dragon. (a) Zool. See Dragon, 6. (b) A meteor. See under Dragon.
 Flying Dutchman. (a) A fabled Dutch mariner condemned for his crimes to sail the seas till the day of judgment. (b) A spectral ship.
 Flying fish. Zool. See Flying fish, in the Vocabulary.
 Flying fox Zool., see Flying fox in the vocabulary.
 Flying frog Zool., either of two East Indian tree frogs of the genus Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus nigrapalmatus and Rhacophorus pardalis), having very large and broadly webbed feet, which serve as parachutes, and enable it to make very long leaps.
 Flying gurnard Zool., a species of gurnard of the genus Cephalacanthus or Dactylopterus, with very large pectoral fins, said to be able to fly like the flying fish, but not for so great a distance.
 Note: Three species are known; that of the Atlantic is Cephalacanthus volitans.
 Flying jib Naut., a sail extended outside of the standing jib, on the flying-jib boom.
 Flying-jib boom Naut., an extension of the jib boom.
 Flying kites Naut., light sails carried only in fine weather.
 Flying lemur. Zool. See Colugo.
 Flying level Civil Engin., a reconnoissance level over the course of a projected road, canal, etc.
 Flying lizard. Zool. See Dragon, n. 6.
 Flying machine, any apparatus for navigating through the air, especially a heavier-than-air machine.
 Flying mouse Zool., the opossum mouse (Acrobates pygmæus), a marsupial of Australia.  Called also feathertail glider.
 Note: It has lateral folds of skin, like the flying squirrels, and a featherlike tail.
 Flying party Mil., a body of soldiers detailed to hover about an enemy.
 Flying phalanger Zool., one of several species of small marsuupials of the genera Petaurus and Belideus, of Australia and New Guinea, having lateral folds like those of the flying squirrels.  The sugar squirrel (Belideus sciureus), and the ariel (Belideus ariel), are the best known; -- called also squirrel petaurus and flying squirrel. See Sugar squirrel.
 Flying pinion, the fly of a clock.
 Flying sap Mil., the rapid construction of trenches (when the enemy's fire of case shot precludes the method of simple trenching), by means of gabions placed in juxtaposition and filled with earth.
 Flying shot, a shot fired at a moving object, as a bird on the wing.
 Flying spider. Zool. See Ballooning spider.
 Flying squid Zool., an oceanic squid (Ommastrephes Bartramii syn. Sthenoteuthis Bartramii), abundant in the Gulf Stream, which is able to leap out of the water with such force that it often falls on the deck of a vessel.
 Flying squirrel Zool. See Flying squirrel, in the Vocabulary.
 Flying start, a start in a sailing race in which the signal is given while the vessels are under way.
 Flying torch Mil., a torch attached to a long staff and used for signaling at night.
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 flying bridge
      n : the highest navigational bridge on a ship; a small (often
          open) deck above the pilot house [syn: flybridge, fly
          bridge, monkey bridge]