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A skilled worker; an artisan; esp., one who operates a machine in a mill or manufactory.

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.

A Chinese alloy of nickel, zinc, and copper, resembling German silver.

Agalmatolite; -- so called because sometimes carved by the Chinese into the form of pagodas. See Agalmatolite.

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.

emplar; 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…

Of the delicate purplish pink color likened to that of peach blooms; -- applied esp. to a Chinese porcelain, small specimens of which bring great prices in the Western countries.

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

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

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

n 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.

mercial cities of China, as the medium of communication between foreign merchants and the Chinese. Its base is English, with a mixture of Portuguese and Hindoostanee. Johnson's Cyc. -- Pigeon grass (Bot.), a kind of foxtail grass (Setaria glauca), of some value as fodder. The seeds are eagerly eaten by pigeons and oth…