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ead or lower end of a bar, which is lifted and let fall, in a stamp mill. -- Stamp mill (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed with stamps; also, a machine for stamping ore. -- Stamp note, a stamped certificate from a customhouse officer, which allows goods to be received by the captain of a ship as freight. [Eng.]…

e, a machine for forming metallic articles or impressions by stamping. -- Stamping mill (Mining), a stamp mill.

An optical instrument used in determining the position of the planes of light-vibration in sections of crystals.

An instrument for determining the specific gravity of liquid bodies, porous bodies, and powders, as well as solids.

An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax.

An apparatus for examining the interior of the mouth.

ice, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.

A wooden landmark, to indicate possession of mining land.

ipal agent used in separating the ore from the sand and gravel. -- Stream works (Cornish Mining), a place where an alluvial deposit of tin ore is worked. Ure. -- To float with the stream, figuratively, to drift with the current of opinion, custom, etc., so as not to oppose or check it.

o reduce it to the number of persons required by law. Burrill. -- To strike a lead. (a) (Mining) To find a vein of ore. (b) Fig.: To find a way to fortune. [Colloq.] -- To strike a ledger, or an account, to balance it. -- To strike hands with. (a) To shake hands with. Halliwell. (b) To make a compact or agreement wit…

A bargain in tribute mining by which the tributor profits. Raymond.

An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum.

A digging under; an undermining. [R.] Bp. Hall.

or dirty pool. [Prov. Eng.] Sump fuse, a fuse used in blasting under water. -- Sump men (Mining), the men who sink the sump in a mine.

That branch of applied mathematics which teaches the art of determining the area of any portion of the earth's surface, the length and directions of the bounding lines, the contour of the surface, etc., with an accurate delineation of the whole on paper; the act or occupation of making surveys. Geodetic surveying, geod…

An apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, as by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise.

Tending or serving to terminate; terminating; determining; definitive. Bp. Rust. -- Ter"mi*na*tive*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.

A determining; as, in oyer and terminer. See Oyer.

An instrument for determining altitudes by the boiling point of water.

measuring the strength of an electric current in the heat which it produces, or for determining the heat developed by such a current.