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beam resting upon and connecting the heads of piles. -- Pile driver, or Pile engine, an apparatus for driving down piles, consisting usually of a high frame, with suitable appliances for raising to a height (by animal or steam power, the explosion of gunpowder, etc.) a heavy mass of iron, which falls upon the pile.…

A line of pipe with pumping machinery and apparatus for conveying liquids, esp. petroleum, between distant points.

off the surface in small shavings as the piece to be planed is passed under it by feeding apparatus.

The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a rai…

An apparatus for measuring the capacity of condensers, or the inductive capacity of dielectrics.

in lead; esp., one who furnishes, fits, and repairs lead, iron, or glass pipes, and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage in buildings.

The lead or iron pipes, and other apparatus, used in conveying water, sewage, etc., in a building.

gs, heart, stomach, liver, and spleen, and, in fishes and many amphibia, to the branchial apparatus and also to the sides of the body.

, and the southern the antarctic circle. -- Polar clock, a tube, containing a polarizing apparatus, turning on an axis parallel to that of the earth, and indicating the hour of the day on an hour circle, by being turned toward the plane of maximum polarization of the light of the sky, which is always 90º from the sun.…

An apparatus for coupling two octave notes, capable of being attached to a keyed instrument.

An apparatus for affording a view of the different cavities of the body.

A machine consisting of many pulleys; specifically, an apparatus formerly used for reducing luxations.

A room, or apparatus, in which perishable things, as fruit, vegetables, etc., can be preserved without decay.

To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus, in order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to press clothes.

An apparatus for automatic ignition.

Of or pertaining to prothesis; as, a prothetic apparatus.

An apparatus for producing artificial respiration by pumping oxygen or air or a mixture of the two into and out of the lungs, as of a person who has been asphyxiated by drowning, breathing poisonous gases, or the like, or of one who has been stunned by an electrical shock.

ng or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle, capstan, and the like; also, the apparatus, tackle, or device by which the advantage is gained. A politician, to do great things, looks for a power -- what our workmen call a purchase. Burke.

hich radiates or emits rays, whether of light or heat; especially, that part of a heating apparatus from which the heat is radiated or diffused; as, a stream radiator.

An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of luminous or thermal rays. It is essentially the same as the photophone.