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A slubbing or roving machine.

An animated picture machine for screen projection; a cinematograph.

An animated picture machine for screen projection; a cinematograph (which see).

the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.

n the legislature of British colonies. Cowell. Committed to the custody of the Black Rod. Macaulay.

A fish of southern Europe (Centrolophus pompilus) of the Mackerel family.

and sentiments are decidedly below those of his class deserves to be called a blackguard. Macaulay.

owering low with blandishment. Milton. Attacked by royal smiles, by female blandishments. Macaulay.

To be resplendent. Macaulay. To blaze away, to discharge a firearm, or to continue firing; -- said esp. of a number of persons, as a line of soldiers. Also used (fig.) of speech or action. [Colloq.]

blood, as in hunting or war. It was most important too that his troops should be blooded. Macaulay.

in the mouths of schoolboys. C. Lamb. A lady's maid whose character had been blown upon. Macaulay.

(a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.

ed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.

ide or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation. The boast of historians. Macaulay.

laced on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc.

A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand. [Sometimes written bobbin net.]The English machine-made net is now confined to point net, warp net, and bobbin net, so called from the peculiar construction of the machines by which they are produced. Tomlinsom.

e specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes. The stomach cook is for the hall, And boileth meate for them all. Gower.

The Osage orange (Maclura aurantiaca). The bois d'arc seems to be the characteristic growth of the black prairies. U. S. Census (1880).

A kind of large knife resembling a machete. [Phil. Islands]

the perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.