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An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper.

Moved by water passing beneath; -- said of a water wheel, and opposed to overshot; as, an undershot wheel.

fire to blow. Chaucer. Thou with thy compeers, Used to the yoke, draw'st his triumphant wheels. Milton. To use one's self, to behave. [Obs.] "Pray, forgive me, if I have used myself unmannerly." Shak. -- To use up. (a) To consume or exhaust by using; to leave nothing of; as, to use up the supplies. (b) To exhaust; to…

the air is beaten. [Archaic] "[/Angels] on the air plumy vans received him. " Milton. He wheeled in air, and stretched his vans in vain; His vans no longer could his flight sustain. Dryden.

he action of the feet on a pedal or pedals connected with the axle of one or more of the wheels, and causing their revolution. They are made in many forms, with two, three, or four wheels. See Bicycle, and Tricycle.

provide with a vent, or escape, for air, gas, etc.; as, to ventilate a mold, or a water-wheel bucket.

Arranged in a transverse whorl or whorls like the rays of a wheel; as, verticillate leaves of a plant; a verticillate shell.

An Italian four-wheeled carriage, esp. one let for hire; a hackney coach.

A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.

An old stringed instrument played upon with a wheel; a hurdy- gurdy.

semblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city. Village cart, a kind of two-wheeled pleasure carriage without a top.

A small, two-wheeled vehicle, like a Bath chair, to be drawn or pushed by a boy or man. [R.]

A cumbrous two-wheeled pleasure carriage used in Cuba.

ematical speculations as the typical form and structure of the chemical atom. -- Vortex wheel, a kind of turbine.

ble of wounds or external injuries; as, a vulnerable body. Achilles was vulnerable in his heel; and there will be wanting a Paris to infix the dart. Dr. T. Dwight.

A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.

rican proteaceous tree (Protea grandiflora); also, its tough wood, used for making wagon wheels.

A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.

A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon. The wardens see nothing but a wain of hay. Jeffrey. Driving in ponderous wains their household goods to the seashore. Longfellow.

Several humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels. Thackeray.