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, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator; as:

A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.

A punch-cutting tool, or machine for deepening and enlarging the spaces between the teeth of a worn saw.

Chinese maritime customs.

A Chinese weight ( 1/10 catty) equivalent to 1 1/3 oz. or 37.801 g.

Black Hamburg grape. See under Black. -- Hamburg , a kind of embroidered work done by machinery on cambric or muslin; -- used for trimming. -- Hamburg lake, a purplish crimson pigment resembling cochineal.

One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a reaper.

the juice of hay extracted by boiling, used as food for cattle, etc. -- Hay tedder, a machine for spreading and turning newmown hay. See Tedder.

A machine in which hay is chopped short, as fodder for cattle.

A machine for curing hay in rainy weather.

One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading.

separate from the bed or frame) for supporting some of the principal working parts of a machine; as:

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 machi…

eads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.

A form of dredging machine. Knight. Hedgehog caterpillar (Zoöl.), the hairy larvæ of several species of bombycid moths, as of the Isabella moth. It curls up like a hedgehog when disturbed. See Woolly bear, and Isabella moth. -- Hedgehog fish (Zoöl.), any spinose plectognath fish, esp. of the genus Diodon; the porcupin…

An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.

An attachment to a sewing machine, for turning under the edge of a piece of fabric, preparatory to stitching it down.

In Chinese literature, one of the sixty-four figures formed of six parallel lines (continuous or broken), forming the basis of the Yih King, or "Book of Changes." S. W. Williams.

, or spies upon, another; app. esp. to the members of certain alleged societies among the Chinese. [U. S.]

ected by a common passage and used for business or storage. Hong merchant, one of the few Chinese merchants who, previous to the treaty of 1842, formed a guild which had the exclusive privilege of trading with foreigners.