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Right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as, the house is in order; the machinery is out of order. Locke.

A component part performing an essential office in the working of any complex machine; as, the cylinder, valves, crank, etc., are organs of the steam engine.

A machine for use in making topographical maps. It is operated by being pushed across country, and not only records distances, like the perambulator, but also elevations.

To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc. To parcel a rope (Naut.), to wind strips of tarred canvas tightly arround it. Totten. -- To parcel a seam (Naut.), to cover it with a strip of tarred canvas.

exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine. I will be the pattern of all patience. Shak.

A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel. [Written…

A sort of moving machine employed in the old pageants. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

tion of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery.

gnite by slight percussion; fulminating powder. -- Percussion sieve, Percussion table, a machine for sorting ores by agitation in running water.

in which the printing on both sides of the paper is completed in one passage through the machine.

A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency.

A speaking machine.

A filtering machine operated by air pressure.

A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.

One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills.

supporting a journal, as of a shaft. It is usually bolted to the frame or foundation of a machine, and is often furnished with journal boxes, and a movable cover, or cap, for tightening the bearings by means of bolts; -- called also pillar block, or plumber block. -- Pillow lace, handmade lace wrought with bobbins upo…

heel, usually with radial handles projecting from the rim, for traversing the saddle of a machine tool, esp. an automatic machine tool, by hand.

A line of pipe with pumping machinery and apparatus for conveying liquids, esp. petroleum, between distant points.

The connecting rod in a sawmill; also, sometimes, a connecting rod in other machinery.

, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram.