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A high tableland; a plateau on a hill. [Southwestern U.S.] Bartlett.

The median vertical plate, or median element, of the ethmoid bone.

The scutum or dorsal plate of the middle thoracic segment of an insect. See Illust. of Butterfly.

Barreled salt beef, packed with about 80 pounds chuck and rump, two flanks, and the rest plates.

A substitute for lithography, in which metallic plates are used instead of stone. Knight.

Treatment of disease by applying metallic plates to the surface of the body.

The ventral plate of the third or last segment of the thorax of insects.

An enlarged representation of a microscopic object, produced by throwing upon a sensitive plate the magnified image of an object formed by a microscope or other suitable combination of lenses.

variety of the carp, having only three or fur rows of very large scales side. -- Mirror plate. (a) A flat glass mirror without a frame. (b) Flat glass used for making mirrors. -- Mirror writing, a manner or form of backward writing, making manuscript resembling in slant and order of letters the reflection of ordinar…

A crystalline or frosted appearance produced by some acids on tin plate; also, the tin plate thus treated.

A curved plate of iron (originally of wood) back of the share of a plow, which turns over the earth in plowing.

of Joseph Smith, who professed to have found an addition to the Bible, engraved on golden plates, called the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830. The Mormons believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles, etc., has control of civil and religious matters.

A small plate covering the armpit in armor of the 14th century and later.

sisting of a generator and a driving motor mechanically connected, usually on a common bedplate and with the two shafts directly coupled or combined into a single shaft.

Pan's pipes. See Pandean. (b) An harmonicon. -- Mouth pipe, an organ pipe with a lip or plate to cut the escaping air and make a sound. -- To stop the mouth, to silence or be silent; to put to shame; to confound. The mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. Ps. lxiii. 11. Whose mouths must be stopped. Titus i…

inked ribbon to print "typewritten" letters, or directly from inked type or a stereotype plate, as in a printing press.

the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes. His nayles like a briddes claws were. Chaucer.

represented or assumed character of. " I'll to him again in name of Brook." Shak. -- Name plate, a plate as of metal, glass, etc., having a name upon it, as a sign; a doorplate. -- Pen name, a name assumed by an author; a pseudonym or nom de plume. Bayard Taylor. -- Proper name (Gram.), a name applied to a particular…

A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.

(c) Untamed; uncvilized. -- Nature printng, a process of printing from metallic or other plates which have received an impression, as by heavy pressure, of an object such as a leaf, lace, or the like. -- Nature worship, the worship of the personified powers of nature. -- To pay the debt of nature, to die.…