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A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called machine tool.

An ESkimo house made of material other than snow, esp. one having walls of turf, driftwood, rock, or skin, and a roof of skins of the walrus or seal. In Alaska it is often partially underground and covered with timber and turf. Topeks are also used by Indians of the lower Yukon region.

That force with which a thread, wire, or rod of any material, returns, or tends to return, to a state of rest after it has been twisted; torsibility. Angle of torsion (of a curve) (Geom.), the indefinitely small angle between two consecutive osculating planes of a curve of double curvature. -- Moment of torsion (Mech.…

rap rock. Trap tufa, Trap tuff, a kind of fragmental rock made up of fragments and earthy materials from trap rocks.

A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like. [Eng.]

Cloth or material for making trousers.

s on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material. Coleridge.

The forming of a tub; also, collectively, materials for tubs.

A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.

A series of tubes; tubes, collectively; a length or piece of a tube; material for tubes; as, leather tubing.

(Chem.), a bottle or retort having a stoppered opening for the introduction or removal of materials.

when reached by the tunnel. Tunnel head (Metal.), the top of a smelting furnace where the materials are put in. -- Tunnel kiln, a limekiln in which coal is burned, as distinguished from a flame kiln, in which wood or peat is used. -- Tunnel net, a net with a wide mouth at one end and narrow at the other. -- Tunnel p…

djoining countries, having a deep pile and composed of pure wool with a weft of different material. It is distinguishable by its coloring and patterns from similar carpets made in India and elsewhere. -- Turkey oak. (Bot.) See Cerris. -- Turkey red. (a) A brilliant red imparted by madder to cottons, calicoes, etc., t…

The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned.

made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, inclosing the fruit or other materials.

A lithographic drawing or painting material of the same nature as lithographic ink. It is also used as a resistant in the biting-in process.

A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together; as, Damascus twist.

f silk, cotton, or other fabric, extended on strips of whalebone, steel, or other elastic material, inserted, or fastened to, a rod or stick by means of pivots or hinges, in such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease. See Parasol. Underneath the umbrella's oily shed. Gay.

Not bending; not suffering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; -- applied to material things. Flies o'er unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope.

A subordinate cliff on a shore, consisting of material that has fallen from the higher cliff above.