Search the Dictionary

The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.

ss having a surface ground and polished in facets or figures. -- Cut nail, a nail cut by machinery from a rolled plate of iron, in distinction from a wrought nail. -- Cut stone, stone hewn or chiseled to shape after having been split from the quarry.

made indefinitely small. -- Differential coupling, a form of slip coupling used in light machinery to regulate at pleasure the velocity of the connected shaft. -- Differential duties (Polit. Econ.), duties which are not imposed equally upon the same products imported from different countries. -- Differential galvano…

Loosing; setting free; detaching. Disengaging machinery. See under Engaging.

A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool.

One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind.

effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery.

straint; to move gently; to lift slightly; to shift a little; as, to ease a bar or nut in machinery.

A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself.

address. -- En*ga"ging*ly, adv. -- En*ga"ging*ness, n. Engaging and disengaging gear or machinery, that in which, or by means of which, one part is alternately brought into gear or out of gear with another part, as occasion may require.

Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement. Shenstone.

Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used.

which is driven from another shaft by a band, and arranged to disengage and reëngage the machinery driven thereby. When the machinery is to be stopped, the band is transferred from the pulley fixed to the shaft to the pulley which revolves freely upon it, and vice versa. -- Hard and fast (Naut.), so completely agroun…

es on, and adjusts, articles of dress. (b) One who fits or adjusts the different parts of machinery to each other.

oolen or cotton refuse (sing. or pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.

vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.

used in making paper; -- so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery.

The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels.

A similar wheel used in other machinery.

tive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery. Frictional gearing. See under Frictional. -- Gearing chain, an endless chain transmitted motion from one sprocket wheel to another. See Illust. of Chain wheel. -- Spur gearing, gearing in which the teeth or cogs are r…