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A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations. Knight.

; esp., one which receives motion from a line shaft in a factory and transmits it to a machine.

A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock. Knight.

A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.

namel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle.

A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker. [U.S.]

A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity betwe…

To pack in a crate or case for transportation; as, to crate a sewing machine; to crate peaches.

A tool, or a sewing-mashine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by.

A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.

Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.

Any great wickedness or sin; iniguity. Nocrime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love. Pope.

rimping iron. (a) An iron instrument for crimping and curling the hair. (b) A crimping machine. -- Crimping machine, a machine with fluted rollers or with dies, for crimping ruffles leather, iron, etc. -- Crimping pin, an instrument for crimping or puckering the border of a lady's cap.

stretched to the required shape. (b) A device for giving hair a wavy apperance. (c) A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.

o shrink or wrinkle; to distort. [Obs.] Till like a boy you see him cringe his face, And whine aloud for mercy. Shak.

A dyestuff, obtained from the Chinese croicin, which produces a brilliant yellow.

The coloring matter of Chinese yellow pods, the fruit of Gardenia grandiflora. Watts.

A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.

ound upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley.

Blameworthiness. [Obs.] Banished out of the realme . . . without culpe. E. Hall.