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The act of plundering, despoiling, or snatching away. [R.] Speed.

Loosing; setting free; detaching. Disengaging machinery. See under Engaging.

A machine for grinding or pulverizing by percussion.

To take down, or apart, as a machine.

Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. [Eng.] And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser.

The act of dispatching. [Obs.] State Trials (1529).

One who, or that which, has power to dissolve or dissipate. Thou kind dissolver of encroaching care. Otway.

n; to cause to swell; as, to distend a bladder, the stomach, etc. The warmth distends the chinks. Dryden.

The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs.

A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st Fluke,

A machine for distributing type.

A blind tube branching out of a longer one.

That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating. Dividing engine, a machine for graduating circles (as for astronomical instruments) or bars (as for scales); also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels. -- Dividing sinker. (Knitting Mach.). See under Sinker.

Serving to instruct; teaching. [Obs.]

a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico- printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine.

Pertaining to, or having to do with, teaching. The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature of a doctrinal instrument. Hooker.

In a doctrinal manner or for; by way of teaching or positive direction.

Teaching; instruction. He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken. Mark iv. 2.

A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards. Ure.

A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool.