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r. If it assume my noble father's person. Shak. Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined. Milton.

A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency.

A speaking machine.

honic acids, but containing two hydrocarbon radicals, and derived from the secondary phosphines by oxidation.

al PH4, analogous to ammonium, and regarded as the nucleus of certain derivatives of phosphine.

To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.

Hence, any substance which shines in the dark like phosphorus, as certain phosphorescent bodies. Bologna phosphorus (Chem.), sulphide of barium, which shines in the dark after exposure to light; -- so called because this property was discovered by a resident of Bologna. The term is sometimes applied to other compounds…

sphorus. [Obsoles.] [Written also phosphuretted.] Phosphureted hydrogen. (Chem.) See Phosphine.

A filtering machine operated by air pressure.

A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.

One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills.

ercial cities of China, as the medium of communication between foreign merchants and the Chinese. Its base is English, with a mixture of Portuguese and Hindoostanee. Johnson's Cyc. -- Pigeon grass (Bot.), a kind of foxtail grass (Setaria glauca), of some value as fodder. The seeds are eagerly eaten by pigeons and othe…

porting a journal, as of a shaft. It is usually bolted to the frame or foundation of a machine, and is often furnished with journal boxes, and a movable cover, or cap, for tightening the bearings by means of bolts; -- called also pillar block, or plumber block. -- Pillow lace, handmade lace wrought with bobbins upon a…

l, usually with radial handles projecting from the rim, for traversing the saddle of a machine tool, esp. an automatic machine tool, by hand.

hlorides of (stannic) tin and ammonium, formerly much used as a mordant for madder and cochineal. -- Pink saucer, a small saucer, the inner surface of which is covered with a pink pigment.

A line of pipe with pumping machinery and apparatus for conveying liquids, esp. petroleum, between distant points.

The connecting rod in a sawmill; also, sometimes, a connecting rod in other machinery.

representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram.

One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp., a machine for planing wood or metals.

a. & vb. n. fr. Plane, v. t. Planing machine. (a) See Planer.