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To explain; to unfold. [Obs.] Like Solon's self explatest the knotty laws. B. Jonson.

See Footboard (a).

To cover with plates; to sheathe; as, to implate a ship with iron.

See Gorget, 1 and 2.

The shoulder blade, or scapula.

A plate prepared by a mechanical process, esp. a photomechanical process.

See Ridgepole.

A bedplate; as, the soleplate of a steam engine.

Same as Templet.

Thin iron sheets coated with an alloy of lead and tin; -- so called because made up of three metals.

A turntable.

A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand. [Written also vamplet.]

A fogged plate.

A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket. Knight.

A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after exposure it is developed and fixed.

To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes. [R.]

t, or from other ideas which naturally accompany it; as the solidity of marble when contemplated apart from its color or figure. -- Abstract terms, those which express abstract ideas, as beauty, whiteness, roundness, without regarding any object in which they exist; or abstract terms are the names of orders, genera or…

The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.

A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail. [Spelled also hacqueton.] [Obs.] Halliwell. Sir W. Scott.

A white metallic alloy; which is made into spoons, forks, teapots, etc. British plate or German silver. See German silver, under German.