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; sing. Calmuck. A branch of the Mongolian race inbabiting parts of the Russian and Chinese empires; also (sing.), the language of the Calmucks. [Written also Kalmucks.]

tton threads, and used to furnish light. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Shak.

A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing.

One who cants or whines; a beggar.

A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine. Card clothing, strips of wire-toothed card used for covering the cylinders of carding machines.

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 op…

A beautiful pigment, or a lake, of this color, prepared from cochineal, and used in miniature painting.

ort. (b) A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage. (c) A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part. (d) A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage.

tion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.

A Chinese coin.

A device for recording the amount of cash received, usually having an automatic adding machine and a money drawer and exhibiting the amount of the sale.

The bark of several species of Cinnamommum grown in China, etc.; Chinese cinnamon. It is imported as cassia, but commonly sold as cinnamon, from which it differs more or less in strength and flavor, and the amount of outer bark attached.

To throw up, as a mound, or rampart. Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee. Luke xix. 48.

A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights.

A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.

aven; the heavenly Jerusalem. Bunyan. -- Celestial empire, China; -- so called from the Chinese words, tien chan, Heavenly Dynasty, as being the kingdom ruled over by the dynasty appoined by heaven. S. W. Williams.

A centrifugal machine.

ear the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized.

e or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.

A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.