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Bathing machineBathing Bath"ing, n.
Act of taking a bath or baths.
Bathing machine, a small room on wheels, to be driven into
the water, for the convenience of bathers, who undress and
dress therein. batting machineScutch Scutch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scutched; p. pr. & vb. n.
Scutching.] [See Scotch to cut slightly.]
1. To beat or whip; to drub. [Old or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
2. To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by
beating; to swingle.
3. To loosen and dress the fiber of (cotton or silk) by
beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating
and blowing.
Scutching machine, a machine used to scutch cotton, silk,
or flax; -- called also batting machine. Burnishing machineBurnish Bur"nish, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Burnished; p. pr. &
vb. n. Burnishing.] [OE. burnischen, burnissen, burnen, OF.
burnir, brunir, to make brown, polish, F. brunir, fr. F. brun
brown, fr. OHG. br?n; cf. MHG. briunen to make brown, polish.
See Brown, a.]
To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish;
specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and
smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper.
The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From
far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air. --Dryden.
Now the village windows blaze, Burnished by the setting
sun. --Cunningham.
Burnishing machine, a machine for smoothing and polishing
by compression, as in making paper collars. Burring machine
Burring machine Burr"ing ma*chine"
A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other
substances.
Calculating machineCalculating Cal"cu*la`ting, a.
1. Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing
or able to perform mathematical calculations.
2. Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting;
scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition.
Calculating machine, a machine for the mechanical
performance of mathematical operations, for the most part
invented by Charles Babbage and G. and E. Scheutz. It
computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a
high degree of intricacy, imprinting the results on a
leaden plate, from which a stereotype plate is then
directly made. Carding machineCarding Card"ing, a.
1. The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc.,
by carding it. See the Note under Card, v. t.
2. A roll of wool or other fiber as it comes from the carding
machine.
Carding engine, Carding machine, a machine for carding
cotton, wool, or other fiber, by subjecting it to the
action of cylinders, or drum covered with wire-toothed
cards, revoling nearly in contact with each other, at
different rates of speed, or in opposite directions. The
staple issues in soft sheets, or in slender rolls called
sivers. Centrifugal machineCentrifugal Cen*trif"u*gal, a. [L. centrum center + fugere to
flee.]
1. Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
2. (Bot.)
(a) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base,
as a flower cluster.
(b) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the
fruit, as some embryos.
Centrifugal force (Mech.), a force whose direction is from
a center.
Note: When a body moves in a circle with uniform velocity, a
force must act on the body to keep it in the circle
without change of velocity. The direction of this force
is towards the center of the circle. If this force is
applied by means of a string to the body, the string
will be in a state of tension. To a person holding the
other end of the string, this tension will appear to be
directed toward the body as if the body had a tendency
to move away from the center of the circle which it is
describing. Hence this latter force is often called
centrifugal force. The force which really acts on the
body being directed towards the center of the circle is
called centripetal force, and in some popular treatises
the centripetal and centrifugal forces are described as
opposing and balancing each other. But they are merely
the different aspects of the same stress. --Clerk
Maxwell.
Centrifugal impression (Physiol.), an impression (motor)
sent from a nerve center outwards to a muscle or muscles
by which motion is produced.
Centrifugal machine, A machine for expelling water or other
fluids from moist substances, or for separating liquids of
different densities by centrifugal action; a whirling
table.
Centrifugal pump, a machine in which water or other fluid
is lifted and discharged through a pipe by the energy
imparted by a wheel or blades revolving in a fixed case.
Some of the largest and most powerful pumps are of this
kind. Dredging machineDredge Dredge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dredged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dredging.]
To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging
machine. --R. Carew.
Dredging machine, a machine (commonly on a boat) used to
scoop up mud, gravel, or obstructions from the bottom of
rivers, docks, etc., so as to deepen them. Edging machineEdging Edg"ing, n.
1. That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe,
trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden.
--Dryden.
2. The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything,
as of a piece of metal.
Edging machine, a machine tool with a revolving cutter, for
dressing edges, as of boards, or metal plates, to a
pattern or templet. Elementary machineMachine Ma*chine", n. [F., fr. L. machina machine, engine,
device, trick, Gr. ?, from ? means, expedient. Cf.
Mechanic.]
1. In general, any combination of bodies so connected that
their relative motions are constrained, and by means of
which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as
a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a
fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a
construction, more or less complex, consisting of a
combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical
elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their
supports and connecting framework, calculated to
constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion
from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit,
modify, and apply them to the production of some desired
mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the
excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.
Note: The term machine is most commonly applied to such
pieces of mechanism as are used in the industrial arts,
for mechanically shaping, dressing, and combining
materials for various purposes, as in the manufacture
of cloth, etc. Where the effect is chemical, or other
than mechanical, the contrivance is usually denominated
an apparatus, not a machine; as, a bleaching apparatus.
Many large, powerful, or specially important pieces of
mechanism are called engines; as, a steam engine, fire
engine, graduating engine, etc. Although there is no
well-settled distinction between the terms engine and
machine among practical men, there is a tendency to
restrict the application of the former to contrivances
in which the operating part is not distinct from the
motor.
2. Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which
the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle. --Dryden.
--Southey. --Thackeray.
3. A person who acts mechanically or at will of another.
4. A combination of persons acting together for a common
purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social
machine.
The whole machine of government ought not to bear
upon the people with a weight so heavy and
oppressive. --Landor.
5. A political organization arranged and controlled by one or
more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends.
[Political Cant]
6. Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being
introduced to perform some exploit. --Addison.
Elementary machine, a name sometimes given to one of the
simple mechanical powers. See under Mechanical.
Infernal machine. See under Infernal.
Machine gun.See under Gun.
Machine screw, a screw or bolt adapted for screwing into
metal, in distinction from one which is designed
especially to be screwed into wood.
Machine shop, a workshop where machines are made, or where
metal is shaped by cutting, filing, turning, etc.
Machine tool, a machine for cutting or shaping wood, metal,
etc., by means of a tool; especially, a machine, as a
lathe, planer, drilling machine, etc., designed for a more
or less general use in a machine shop, in distinction from
a machine for producing a special article as in
manufacturing.
Machine twist, silken thread especially adapted for use in
a sewing machine.
Machine work, work done by a machine, in contradistinction
to that done by hand labor. Fanning machineFan Fan, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fanned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fanning.] [Cf. OF. vanner, L. vannere. See Fan, n., Van
a winnowing machine.]
1. To move as with a fan.
The air . . . fanned with unnumbered plumes.
--Milton.
2. To cool and refresh, by moving the air with a fan; to blow
the air on the face of with a fan.
3. To ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion.
Calm as the breath which fans our eastern groves.
--Dryden.
4. To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a
current of air; as, to fan wheat. --Jer. li. 2.
5. To excite or stir up to activity, as a fan axcites a
flame; to stimulate; as, this conduct fanned the
excitement of the populace.
Fanning machine, or Fanning mill, a machine for
separating seed from chaff, etc., by a blast of air; a
fanner. Forcing machineForcing For"cing, n.
1. The accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately,
prematurely, or with unusual expedition.
2. (Gardening) The art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits
at an earlier season than the natural one, as in a hitbed
or by the use of artificial heat.
Forcing bed or pit, a plant bed having an under layer of
fermenting manure, the fermentation yielding bottom heat
for forcing plants; a hotbed.
Forcing engine, a fire engine.
Forcing fit (Mech.), a tight fit, as of one part into a
hole in another part, which makes it necessary to use
considerable force in putting the two parts together.
Forcing house, a greenhouse for the forcing of plants,
fruit trees, etc.
Forcing machine, a powerful press for putting together or
separating two parts that are fitted tightly one into
another, as for forcing a crank on a shaft, or for drawing
off a car wheel from the axle.
Forcing pump. See Force pump
(b) . Freezing machineFreezing Freez"ing, a.
Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in
manner. -- Frrez"ing*ly, adv.
Freezing machine. See Ice machine, under Ice.
Freezing mixture, a mixture (of salt and snow or of
chemical salts) for producing intense cold.
Freezing point, that degree of a thermometer at which a
fluid begins to freeze; -- applied particularly to water,
whose freezing point is at 32[deg] Fahr., and at 0[deg]
Centigrade. Friction machineFtiction Ftic"tion, n. [L. frictio, fr. fricare, frictum,to
rub: cf. F. friction. See Fray to rub, arid cf.
Dentifrice.]
1. The act of rubbing the surface of one body against that of
another; attrition; in hygiene, the act of rubbing the
body with the hand, with flannel, or with a brush etc., to
excite the skin to healthy action.
2. (Mech.) The resistance which a body meets with from the
surface on which it moves. It may be resistance to sliding
motion, or to rolling motion.
3. A clashing between two persons or parties in opinions or
work; a disagreement tending to prevent or retard
progress.
Angle of friction (Mech.), the angle which a plane onwhich
a body is lying makes with a horizontal plane,when the
hody is just ready to slide dewn the plane.
Note: This angle varies for different bodies, and for planes
of different materials.
Anti-friction wheels (Mach.), wheels turning freely on
small pivots, and sustaining, at the angle formed by their
circumferences, the pivot or journal of a revolving shaft,
to relieve it of friction; -- called also friction
wheels.
Friction balls, or
Friction rollers, balls or rollers placed so as to receive
the pressure or weight of bodies in motion, and relieve
friction, as in the hub of a bicycle wheel.
Friction brake (Mach.), a form of dynamometer for measuring
the power a motor exerts. A clamp around the revolving
shaft or fly wheel of the motor resists the motion by its
friction, the work thus absorbed being ascertained by
observing the force required to keep the clamp from
revolving with the shaft; a Prony brake.
Friction chocks, brakes attached to the common standing
garrison carriages of guns, so as to raise the trucks or
wheels off the platform when the gun begins to recoil, and
prevent its running back. --Earrow.
Friction clutch, Friction coupling, an engaging and
disengaging gear for revolving shafts, pulleys, etc.,
acting by friction; esp.:
(a) A device in which a piece on one shaft or pulley is so
forcibly pressed against a piece on another shaft that
the two will revolve together; as, in the
illustration, the cone a on one shaft, when thrust
forcibly into the corresponding hollow cone b on the
other shaft, compels the shafts to rotate together, by
the hold the friction of the conical surfaces gives.
(b) A toothed clutch, one member of which, instead of
being made fast on its shaft, is held by friction and
can turn, by slipping, under excessive strain or in
starting.
Friction drop hammer, one in which the hammer is raised for
striking by the friction of revolving rollers which nip
the hammer rod.
Friction gear. See Frictional gearing, under
Frictional.
Friction machine, an electrical machine, generating
electricity by friction.
Friction meter, an instrument for measuring friction, as in
testing lubricants.
Friction powder, Friction composition, a composition of
chlorate of potassium, antimony, sulphide, etc, which
readily ignites by friction.
Friction primer, Friction tube, a tube used for firing
cannon by means of the friction of a roughened wire in the
friction powder or composition with which the tube is
filled.
Friction wheel (Mach.), one of the wheels in frictional
gearing. See under Frictional. Friezing machineFrieze Frieze, v. t.
To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See Friz, v. t., 2.
Friezing machine, a machine for friezing cloth; a friezing
machine. Frizzing machineFriz Friz, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frizzed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Frizzing.] [Cf. F. friser to curl, crisp, frizzle, to raise
the nap (on certain stuffs); prob.akin to OFries. frisle hair
of the head. Cf. Frieze kind of cloth.] [Written also
frizz.]
1. To curl or form into small curls, as hair, with a crisping
pin; to crisp.
With her hair frizzed short up to her ears. --Pepys.
2. To form into little burs, prominences, knobs, or tufts, as
the nap of cloth.
3. (Leather Manufacture) To soften and make of even thickness
by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument.
Frizzing machine.
(a) (Fabrics) A machine for frizzing the surface of cloth.
(b) (Wood Working) A bench with a revolving cutter head
slightly protruding above its surface, for dressing
boards. Gas machine Gas fitter, one who lays pipes and puts up fixtures for
gas.
Gas fitting.
(a) The occupation of a gas fitter.
(b) pl. The appliances needed for the introduction of gas
into a building, as meters, pipes, burners, etc.
Gas fixture, a device for conveying illuminating or
combustible gas from the pipe to the gas-burner,
consisting of an appendage of cast, wrought, or drawn
metal, with tubes upon which the burners, keys, etc., are
adjusted.
Gas generator, an apparatus in which gas is evolved; as:
(a) a retort in which volatile hydrocarbons are evolved by
heat;
(b) a machine in which air is saturated with the vapor of
liquid hydrocarbon; a carburetor;
(c) a machine for the production of carbonic acid gas, for
a["e]rating water, bread, etc. --Knight.
Gas jet, a flame of illuminating gas.
Gas machine, an apparatus for carbureting air for use as
illuminating gas.
Gas meter, an instrument for recording the quantity of gas
consumed in a given time, at a particular place.
Gas retort, a retort which contains the coal and other
materials, and in which the gas is generated, in the
manufacture of gas.
Gas stove, a stove for cooking or other purposes, heated by
gas.
Gas tar, coal tar.
Gas trap, a drain trap; a sewer trap. See 4th Trap, 5.
Gas washer (Gas Works), an apparatus within which gas from
the condenser is brought in contact with a falling stream
of water, to precipitate the tar remaining in it.
--Knight.
Gas water, water through which gas has been passed for
purification; -- called also gas liquor and ammoniacal
water, and used for the manufacture of sal ammoniac,
carbonate of ammonia, and Prussian blue. --Tomlinson.
Gas well, a deep boring, from which natural gas is
discharged. --Raymond.
Gas works, a manufactory of gas, with all the machinery and
appurtenances; a place where gas is generated for lighting
cities.
Laughing gas. See under Laughing.
Marsh gas (Chem.), a light, combustible, gaseous
hydrocarbon, CH4, produced artificially by the dry
distillation of many organic substances, and occurring as
a natural product of decomposition in stagnant pools,
whence its name. It is an abundant ingredient of ordinary
illuminating gas, and is the first member of the paraffin
series. Called also methane, and in coal mines, fire
damp.
Natural gas, gas obtained from wells, etc., in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and elsewhere, and largely used for
fuel and illuminating purposes. It is chiefly derived from
the Coal Measures.
Olefiant gas (Chem.). See Ethylene.
Water gas (Chem.), a kind of gas made by forcing steam over
glowing coals, whereby there results a mixture of hydrogen
and carbon monoxide. This gives a gas of intense heating
power, but destitute of light-giving properties, and which
is charged by passing through some volatile hydrocarbon,
as gasoline. gear or machineryEngaging 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 disengaging gear 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. Gliding machine
Gliding machine Gliding machine (A["e]ronautics)
A construction consisting essentially of one or more
a["e]roplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height
to the ground.
Gramme machine
Gramme machine Gramme" ma*chine" (Elec.)
A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its
French inventor, M. Gramme. --Knight.
Hydro-electric machineHydro-electric Hy`dro-e*lec"tric, a. [Hydro-, 1 + electric.]
Pertaining to, employed in, or produced by, the evolution of
electricity by means of a battery in which water or steam is
used.
Hydro-electric machine (Physics), an apparatus invented by
Sir William Armstrong of England for generating
electricity by the escape of high-pressure steam from a
series of jets connected with a strong boiler, in which
the steam is produced. Infernal machineMachine Ma*chine", n. [F., fr. L. machina machine, engine,
device, trick, Gr. ?, from ? means, expedient. Cf.
Mechanic.]
1. In general, any combination of bodies so connected that
their relative motions are constrained, and by means of
which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as
a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a
fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a
construction, more or less complex, consisting of a
combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical
elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their
supports and connecting framework, calculated to
constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion
from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit,
modify, and apply them to the production of some desired
mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the
excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.
Note: The term machine is most commonly applied to such
pieces of mechanism as are used in the industrial arts,
for mechanically shaping, dressing, and combining
materials for various purposes, as in the manufacture
of cloth, etc. Where the effect is chemical, or other
than mechanical, the contrivance is usually denominated
an apparatus, not a machine; as, a bleaching apparatus.
Many large, powerful, or specially important pieces of
mechanism are called engines; as, a steam engine, fire
engine, graduating engine, etc. Although there is no
well-settled distinction between the terms engine and
machine among practical men, there is a tendency to
restrict the application of the former to contrivances
in which the operating part is not distinct from the
motor.
2. Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which
the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle. --Dryden.
--Southey. --Thackeray.
3. A person who acts mechanically or at will of another.
4. A combination of persons acting together for a common
purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social
machine.
The whole machine of government ought not to bear
upon the people with a weight so heavy and
oppressive. --Landor.
5. A political organization arranged and controlled by one or
more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends.
[Political Cant]
6. Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being
introduced to perform some exploit. --Addison.
Elementary machine, a name sometimes given to one of the
simple mechanical powers. See under Mechanical.
Infernal machine. See under Infernal.
Machine gun.See under Gun.
Machine screw, a screw or bolt adapted for screwing into
metal, in distinction from one which is designed
especially to be screwed into wood.
Machine shop, a workshop where machines are made, or where
metal is shaped by cutting, filing, turning, etc.
Machine tool, a machine for cutting or shaping wood, metal,
etc., by means of a tool; especially, a machine, as a
lathe, planer, drilling machine, etc., designed for a more
or less general use in a machine shop, in distinction from
a machine for producing a special article as in
manufacturing.
Machine twist, silken thread especially adapted for use in
a sewing machine.
Machine work, work done by a machine, in contradistinction
to that done by hand labor. Jigging machineJigging Jig"ging, n. (Mining)
The act or using a jig; the act of separating ore with a
jigger, or wire-bottomed sieve, which is moved up and down in
water.
Jigging machine.
(a) (Mining) A machine for separating ore by the process of
jigging.
(b) (Metal Working) A machine with a rotary milling cutter
and a templet by which the action of the cutter is guided
or limited; -- used for forming the profile of an
irregularly shaped piece; a profiling machine. Jointing machineJointing Joint"ing, n.
The act or process of making a joint; also, the joints thus
produced.
Jointing machine, a planing machine for wood used in
furniture and piano factories, etc.
Jointing plane. See Jointer, 2.
Jointing rule (Masonry), a long straight rule, used by
bricklayers for securing straight joints and faces. Knitting machineKnitting Knit"ting, n.
1. The work of a knitter; the network formed by knitting.
2. Union formed by knitting, as of bones.
Knitting machine, one of a number of contrivances for
mechanically knitting stockings, jerseys, and the like.
Knitting ?eedle, a stiff rod, as of steel wire, with
rounded ends for knitting yarn or threads into a fabric,
as in stockings.
Knitting sheath, a sheath to receive the end of a needle in
knitting. Lapping machineLapping Lap"ping, n.
A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico
printers. --Ure.
Lapping engine, Lapping machine (Textile Manuf.), A
machine for forming fiber info a lap. See its Lap, 9. lifting machineHealth Health, n. [OE. helthe, AS. h?lp, fr. h[=a]l hale,
sound, whole. See Whole.]
1. The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind,
or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical
disease or pain.
There is no health in us. --Book of
Common Prayer.
Though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, it
can not be sported with without loss, or regained by
courage. --Buckminster.
2. A wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in
a toast. ``Come, love and health to all.' --Shak.
Bill of health. See under Bill.
Health lift, a machine for exercise, so arranged that a
person lifts an increasing weight, or moves a spring of
increasing tension, in such a manner that most of the
muscles of the body are brought into gradual action; --
also called lifting machine.
Health officer, one charged with the enforcement of the
sanitary laws of a port or other place.
To drink a health. See under Drink. Machinal
Machinal Ma*chin"al, a. [L. machinalis: cf. F. machinal.]
Of or pertaining to machines.
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