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pporting a journal, as of a shaft. It is usually bolted to the frame or foundation of a machine, and is often furnished with journal boxes, and a movable cover, or cap, for tightening the bearings by means of bolts; -- called also pillar block, or plumber block. -- Pillow lace, handmade lace wrought with bobbins upon…

el, usually with radial handles projecting from the rim, for traversing the saddle of a machine tool, esp. an automatic machine tool, by hand.

chlorides of (stannic) tin and ammonium, formerly much used as a mordant for madder and cochineal. -- Pink saucer, a small saucer, the inner surface of which is covered with a pink pigment.

A line of pipe with pumping machinery and apparatus for conveying liquids, esp. petroleum, between distant points.

The connecting rod in a sawmill; also, sometimes, a connecting rod in other machinery.

a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram.

One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp., a machine for planing wood or metals.

a. & vb. n. fr. Plane, v. t. Planing machine. (a) See Planer.

The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a rai…

One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.

The movable table of a machine tool, as a planer, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool; -- also called table.

A machine for calendering paper.

ilway car without permanent raised sides or covering; a f -- Platform scale, a weighing machine, with a flat platform on which objects are weighed.

A machine for straightening and cleaning wool.

es, etc., are sent, by the flow and pressure of air. -- Pneumatic elevator, a hoisting machine worked by compressed air. -- Pneumatic pile, a tubular pile or cylinder of large diameter sunk by atmospheric pressure. -- Pneumatic pump, an air-exhausting or forcing pump. -- Pneumatic railway. See Atmospheric railway,…

Lace having a needle-made design applied to a net ground, this ground often being machine-made.

An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.

Having or producing two or more phases; multiphase; as, a polyphase machine, a machine producing two or more pressure waves of electro-motive force, differing in phase; a polyphase current.

A machine generating more than one pressure wave; a multiphaser.

A machine consisting of many pulleys; specifically, an apparatus formerly used for reducing luxations.