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The part which opens the ground for the reception of the seed, in a machine for sowing seed. Knight.

A tool or machine for shaving. A note shaver, a person who buys notes at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest. [Cant, U.S.]

agnitude in the third direction. Shear blade, one of the blades of shears or a shearing machine. -- Shear hulk. See under Hulk. -- Shear steel, a steel suitable for shears, scythes, and other cutting instruments, prepared from fagots of blistered steel by repeated heating, rolling, and tilting, to increase its mallea…

The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.

A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge.

eepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.

A machine for shingling puddled iron.

ezing, in the production of wrought iron. Shingling hammer, a ponderous hammer moved by machinery, used in shingling puddled iron. -- Shingling mill, a mill or forge where puddled iron is shingled.

t, horny process on the tarsus of some toads, -- used in burrowing. -- Steam shovel, a machine with a scoop or scoops, operated by a steam engine, for excavating earth, as in making railway cuttings.

The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.

else; not complicated; as, a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound; a simple machine; a simple problem; simple tasks.

y or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts; as, the simplicity of a machine.

A machine for singeing cloth.

Of or pertaining to the Chinese and allied races; Chinese.

Anything peculiar to the Chinese; esp., a Chinese peculiarity in manners or customs.

In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles. Dividing sinker, in knitting machines, a sinker between two jack sinkers and acting alternately with them. -- Jack sinker. See under Jack, n. -- Sinker bar. (a) In knitting machines, a bar to wh…

Relating to the Chinese language or literature.

A student of Chinese; one versed in the Chinese language, literature, and history.

That branch of systemized knowledge which treats of the Chinese, their language, literature, etc.

The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins, as sheepskins.