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Am extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways

That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed to transmitter. Exhausted receiver (Physics), a receiver, as that used with the air pump, from which the air has been withdrawn; a vessel the interior of which is a more or less complete vacuum.…

That which rectifies or refines; esp., a part of a distilling apparatus in which the more volatile portions are separated from the less volatile by the process of evaporation and condensation; a rectifier.

The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar.

An apparatus for rapidly cooling heated liquids or vapors, connected with a still, etc. Refrigerator car (Railroad), a freight car constructed as a refrigerator, for the transportation of fresh meats, fish, etc., in a temperature kept cool by ice.

Recording; -- applied to instruments; having an apparatus which registers; as, a registering thermometer. See Recording.

In various forms of telegrapfhic apparatus, a megnet which receives the circuit current, and is caused by it to bring into into action the power of a local battery for performing the work of making the record; also, a similar device by which the current in one circuit is made to open or close another circuit in which a…

A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.

Any apparatus by which an electrical current is originated. [R.]

A connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus, traversed by a current.

To furnish with apparatus or gear; to fit with tackling.

o the German physicist Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen, or the rays discovered by him; as, Röntgen apparatus.

f type, etc., is run in under the platen and out again; -- sometimes applied to the whole apparatus by which the form is moved under the platen.

ugar present in sirup, molasses, and the like, especially by the employment of polarizing apparatus.

cious; lecherous; lustful. Shak. Salt acid (Chem.), hydrochloric acid. -- Salt block, an apparatus for evaporating brine; a salt factory. Knight. -- Salt bottom, a flat piece of ground covered with saline efforescences. [Western U.S.] bartlett. -- Salt cake (Chem.), the white caked mass, consisting of sodium sulphat…

oses. Brande & C. (b) In deepwell boring, the post which supports the walking beam of the apparatus.

other hard substances by driving sand against them by a steam jet or otherwise; also, the apparatus used in the process. -- Sand box. (a) A box with a perforated top or cover, for sprinkling paper with sand. (b) A box carried on locomotives, from which sand runs on the rails in front of the driving wheel, to prevent s…

to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when applied to the whole instrument or apparatus for weighing. Also used figuratively. Long time in even scale The battle hung. Milton. The scales are turned; her kindness weighs no more Now than my vows. Waller.

A weighing apparatus with a sliding weight, resembling a steelyard.

Of or pertaining to science; used in science; as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations.