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. A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.

A supporting plate having raised ribs that form continuations of the rails, to guide the wheels where one track branches from another or crosses it.

le, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter.

A thief. [Obs.] Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. J. Fleteher.

a vessel; one of the crooked transverse timbers passing across and over the keel. Futtock plates (Naut.), plates of iron to which the dead-eyes of the topmast rigging are secured. -- Futtock shrouds, short iron shrouds leading from the upper part of the lower mast or of the main shrouds to the edge of the top, or thro…

llantry of our church by this . . . when the desk whereon the priest read was inlaid with plates of silver. Fuller.

A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall.

To plate, as with gold, silver, etc., by means of electricity.

A copperplate produced by the method of galvanography; also, a picture printed from such a plate.

A method of producing by means of electrotyping process (without etching) copperplates which can be printed from in the same manner as engraved plates.

Gang press, a press for operating upon a pile or row of objects separated by intervening plates. -- Gang saw, a saw fitted to be one of a combination or gang of saws hung together in a frame or sash, and set at fixed distances apart. -- Gang tide. See Gang week (below). -- Gang tooth, a projecting tooth. [Obs.] Hal…

il amphibians allied to the labyrinthodonts, having the head defended by bony, sculptured plates, as in some ganoid fishes.

alve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasma. Many of the species are covered with bony plates, or with ganoid scales; others have cycloid scales.

f measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard. This plate must be a gauge to file your worm and groove to equal breadth by. Moxon. There is not in our hands any fixed gauge of minds. I. Taylor.

A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it; -- so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also Plücker tube, from the German physicist who devised it.

A metal plate covering the knee.

esic; Anglo-Saxon or Saxon; Old Saxon; Dutch or Low Dutch, with its dialect, Flemish; and Plattdeutsch (called also Low German), spoken in many dialects.

Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous. Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Milton.

The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom.

ndwich girder, a girder consisting of two parallel wooden beams, between which is an iron plate, the whole clamped together by iron bolts.