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Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; -- the opposite of stay, and tie.

To fill by being pressed or packed into. With inward arms the dire machine they load, And iron bowels stuff the dark abode. Dryden.

r. -- Sugar maple (Bot.), the rock maple (Acer saccharinum). See Maple. -- Sugar mill, a machine for pressing out the juice of the sugar cane, usually consisting of three or more rollers, between which the cane is passed. -- Sugar mite. (Zoöl.) (a) A small mite (Tyroglyphus sacchari), often found in great numbers in…

; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.

A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc.

sweep of a scythe, or the whole breadth from which grass or grain is cut by a scythe or a machine, in mowing or cradling; as, to cut a wide swath.

A device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.

The main card cylinder of a flax-carding machine.

To cause to agree in time; as, to synchronize the movements of different machines; to synchronize clocks.

An early form of antimated-picture machine, devised in 1889 by Otto Anschütz of Berlin, in which the chronophotographs were mounted upon the periphery of a rotating wheel.

That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.

A machine for stirring and spreading hay, to expedite its drying.

A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.

One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.

A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness.

One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.

ng screws for the attachment of wires by which a current may be conveyed into or from the machine; a pole.

The operation of refining gold or silver in a test, or cupel; cupellation. Testing machine (Engin.), a machine used in the determination of the strength of materials, as iron, stone, etc., and their behavior under strains of various kinds, as elongation, bending, crushing, etc.

A machine in which four pulleys act together. Brande & C.

e, or oats; to thrash over the old straw. The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by machines. H. Spencer.