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One who, or that which, licks. Licker in (Carding Machine), the drum, or cylinder, by which the lap is taken from the feed rollers.

as resembling a natural organism in structure or functions; as, the life of a state, a machine, or a book; authority is the life of government.

A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.

, lifting. Lifting bridge, a lift bridge. -- Lifting jack. See 2d Jack, 5. -- Lifting machine. See Health lift, under Health. -- Lifting pump. (Mach.) (a) A kind of pump having a bucket, or valved piston, instead of a solid piston, for drawing water and lifting it to a high level. (b) A pump which lifts the water on…

A Chinese provincial tax levied at many inland stations upon imports or articles in transit.

ke divisions resembling those of a lily. Gray. -- Blackberry lily (Bot.), the Pardanthus Chinensis, the black seeds of which form a dense like a blackberry. -- Bourbon lily (Bot.), Lilium candidum. See Illust. -- Butterfly lily. (Bot.) Same as Mariposa lily, in the Vocabulary. -- Lily daffodil (Bot.), a plant of th…

A kind of typesetting machine which produces castings, each of which corresponds to a line of separate types. By pressing upon keys like those of a typewriter the matrices for one line are properly arranged; the stereotype, or slug, is then cast and planed, and the matrices are returned to their proper places, the whol…

titch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch.

of a steamship, of the coal consumed, and of other items relating to the performance of machinery during a given time.

A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making. Hector, when he sees Andromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff. Rambler.…

coast of China, having the hull built on a European model, and the rigging like that of a Chinese junk. Admiral Foote.

as oil, grease, plumbago, etc., used for reducing the friction of the working parts of machinery.

d. S. Sharp. Supples, lubricates, and keeps in play, The various movements of this nice machine. Young.

A contrivance, as an oil cup, for supplying a lubricant to machinery.

ersons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames. J. & H. Smith. H. Martineau.

Of or pertaining to machines.

Of or pertaining to the machinery of a poem; acting or used as a machine.[Obs.] Dryden.

A constrictor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines.

electricity by the action of magnets; as, magneto-electric induction. Magneto-electric machine, a form of dynamo-electric machine in which the field is maintained by permanent steel magnets instead of electro-magnets.

A machine for washing linen.