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A machine for concentrating ore. See Frue vanner.

An apparatus for measuring speed, as of machinery or vessels, but especially of projectiles.

A contrivance for effecting ventilation; especially, a contrivance or machine for drawing off or expelling foul or stagnant air from any place or apartment, or for introducing that which is fresh and pure.

An ink-distributing roller in a printing machine, having an additional vibratory motion.

One of a system of ordnance, including machine, quick-fire, coast, and field guns, of all calibers, manufactured by the combined firms of Vickers' Sons of Sheffield and Maxim of Birmingham and elsewhere, England.

A form of machine for exhibiting animated pictures.

To glide in a flying machine.

The Department of Foreign Affairs in the Chinese government.

The Chinese name of one or two species of bamboo, or jointed cane, of the genus Phyllostachys. The slender stems are much used for walking sticks. [Written also whanghee.]

-- Warp fabric, fabric produced by warp knitting. -- Warp frame, or Warp-net frame, a machine for making warp lace having a number of needles and employing a thread for each needle. -- Warp knitting, a kind of knitting in which a number of threads are interchained each with one or more contiguous threads on either s…

rs for hanging the yarn on, when warping it into hauls for tarring. -- Warping mill, a machine for warping yarn. -- Warping penny, money, varying according to the length of the thread, paid to the weaver by the spinner on laying the warp. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. -- Warping post, a strong post used in warping rope-yarn.…

and consisting usually of alkaline salts resembling soaps in their action. -- Washing machine, a machine for washing; specifically, a machine for washing clothes. -- Washing soda. (Chem.) See Sodium carbonate, under Sodium. -- Washing stuff, any earthy deposit containing gold enough to pay for washing it; -- so cal…

refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.

A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.

An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.

A small Chinese deer (Hydropotes inermis). Both sexes are destitute of antlers, but the male has large, descending canine tusks.

An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine.

A name given to the first power spinning machine, because driven by water power.

A mill whose machinery is moved by water; -- distinguished from a windmill, and a steam mill.

The power of water employed to move machinery, etc.