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A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal.

A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti).

ass (Imperata arundinacea) of the Philippine Islands and adjacent countries, used for thatching.

The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.

One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc.

See Coamings. Combing machine (Textile Manuf.), a machine for combing wool, flax, cotton, etc., and separating the longer and more valuable fiber from the shorter. See also Carding machine, under Carding.

A gripping device, as for stretching wire, etc., consisting of two jaws so attached to a ring that they are closed by pulling on the ring.

A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun in its perihelion, and receding to a very great distance from it at its aphelion. A comet commonly consists of three parts: the nucleus, the envelope, or coma, and the tail; but one or more of these parts is frequen…

Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next; as, the coming week or year; the coming exhibition. Welcome the coming, speed the parting, guest. Pope. Your coming days and years. Byron.

r reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction.

An instrument or machine for comparing anything to be measured with a standard measure; -- applied especially to a machine for comparing standards of length.

ition. [Obs.] Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure [in music] and teaching. Evelyn.

A kind of steward or agent. [China] S. W. Williams

A machine for adding numbers and making a printed record of the sum.

A calculating machine; an arithmometer.

hain, a succession. The stoics affirmed a fatal, unchangeable concatenation of causes, reaching even to the illicit acts of man's will. South. A concatenation of explosions. W. Irving.

e reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to. Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ. Acts xxviii. 31. Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation.…

ef European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.

Of or pertaining to preaching or public addresses. [Obs.] Howell.

Same as Leader. Prime conductor (Elec.), the largest conductor of an electrical machine, serving to collect, accumulate, or retain the electricity.