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raphic stones. -- Polishing wheel, a wheel or disk coated with, or composed of, abrading material, for polishing a surface.

hilosophy which treats of the sources, and methods of production and preservation, of the material wealth and prosperity of nations.

a bridge formed with pontoons. -- Pontoon train, the carriages of the pontoons, and the materials they carry for making a pontoon bridge.

Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.

d powder, -- used principally to ignite the priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells.

Of or pertaining to business or to affairs; of the nature of business; practical; material; businesslike in habit or manner. The next day . . . I began to be very pragmatical. Evelyn. We can not always be contemplative, diligent, or pragmatical, abroad; but have need of some delightful intermissions. Milton. Low, pragm…

To consider, represent, or embody (something unreal) as fact; to materialize. [R.] "A pragmatized metaphor." Tylor.

itness or adaptation to any change, impression, or purpose; susceptibility; -- applied to material things; as, the predisposition of the body to disease.

To provide beforehand. "The materials preprovided." Fuller.

art, or practice of impressing letters, characters, or figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business of a printer, including typesetting and presswork, with their adjuncts; typography; also, the act of producing photographic prints. Block printing. See under Block. -- Printing frame (Photog.), a shallow bo…

One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.

wants only indirectly as factors in the production of other goods, such as tools and raw material; -- called also instrumental goods, auxiliary goods, intermediate goods, or goods of the second and higher orders, and disting. from consumers' goods.

cruing to a producer on account of some monopoly (temporary or permanent) of the means or materials of production; -- called also Producer's rent.

The viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called " physical basis of life;" the original cell substance, cytoplasm, cytoblastema, bioplasm sarcode, etc.

The hypothetical homogeneous cosmic material of the original universe, supposed to have been differentiated into what are recognized as distinct chemical elements.

To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay. Thackeray. Taking into consideration how they [laws] are to be pruned and reformed. Bacon. Our delightful task To prune these growing plants, and…

A bunch of soft material to prevent chafing between spars, or the like.

iquids; also, the process of rendering anything impervious to liquids by means of puddled material.

The material of which paper is made when ground up and suspended in water.

Punching machine, or Punching press, a machine tool for punching holes in metal or other material; -- called also punch press.