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Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge. Knight.

Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors. Knight.

ich carries the water and fuel it requires, thus dispensing with a tender. -- Tank iron, plate iron thinner than boiler plate, and thicker than sheet iron or stovepipe iron. -- Tank worm (Zoöl.), a small nematoid worm found in the water tanks of India, supposed by some to be the young of the Guinea worm.…

A plate of dense connective tissue or cartilage in the eyelid of man and many animals; -- called also tarsal cartilage, and tarsal plate.

A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers; -- rarely used in the United States. Tassel flower (Bot.), a name of several composite plants of the genus Cineraria, especially the C. sconchifolia, and of the blossoms which they bear.…

A defense for the front of the thigh, consisting of one or more iron plates hanging from the belt on the lower edge of the corselet.

Composed of small plates, as of horn or metal, overlapping like tiles; -- said of a kind of ancient armor. Fairholt.

the eyepiece of a telescope, so that the real or a magnified image falls on the sensitive plate.

A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be executed; as, a mason's or a wheelwright's templet.

ra mater which separates the cerebellum from the cerebrum and often incloses a process or plate of the skull called the bony tentorium.

One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a cirriped.

Crinoidea including numerous fossil species in which the body is covered with tessellated plates.

A piece of plate armor for the head of a war horse; a tester.

Something, as money or plate, presented to a preson as a token of respect, or of obligation for services rendered.

ace, and a lower or ventral shell, called the plastron, each of which consists of several plates.

A thin plate of metal. [Obs.] "A teyne of silver." Chaucer.

the higher forms the plant body is a thallus, which may be filamentous or may consist of plates of cells; it is commonly undifferentiated into stem, leaves, and roots, and shows no distinct tissue systems; the fronds of many algæ, however, are modified to serve many of the functions of the above-named organs. Both ase…

Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.

A plate, or thin piece, of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings, for floors, for drains, and often for ornamental mantel works.

Thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate.