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Disengaging machinery Disengaging Dis`en*ga"ging, a.
Loosing; setting free; detaching.
Disengaging machinery. See under Engaging.
gear or machinery Engaging En*ga"ging, a.
Tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as,
engaging manners or address. -- En*ga"ging*ly, adv. --
En*ga"ging*ness, n.
Engaging and disengaginggear or machinery, that in
which, or by means of which, one part is alternately
brought into gear or out of gear with another part, as
occasion may require.
Machiner Machiner Ma*chin"er, n.
One who or operates a machine; a machinist. [R.]
Machinery Machinery Ma*chin"er*y, n. [From Machine: cf. F.
machinerie.]
1. Machines, in general, or collectively.
2. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as,
the machinery of a watch.
3. The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or
fictitious work is carried on and brought to a
catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by
which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative,
in prose or verse, are effected.
The machinery, madam, is a term invented by the
critics, to signify that part which the deities,
angels, or demons, are made to act in a poem.
--Pope.
4. The means and appliances by which anything is kept in
action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system
of parts adapted to a purpose.
An indispensable part of the machinery of state.
--Macaulay.
The delicate inflexional machinery of the Aryan
languages. --I. Taylor
(The
Alphabet).
