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That which cleanses or purifies; esp., an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and sirups. Knight.

The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison. [R.]

One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.

An instrument or apparatus in which water is separated by evaporation or distillation; the part of a distilling apparatus in which the separation of the vapors is effected.

An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda.

very slow or very rapid motion. -- Differential pulley. (Mach.) (a) A portable hoisting apparatus, the same in principle as the differential windlass. (b) A hoisting pulley to which power is applied through a differential gearing. -- Differential screw, a compound screw by which a motion is produced equal to the dif…

e digestive ferments. Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be. B. Jonson. Digestive apparatus, the organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it. -- Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium.

One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants.

The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement.

A distillatory apparatus; a still.

The condenser of a distilling apparatus.

An apparatus for distributing an electric current, either to various points in rotation, as in some motors, or along two or more lines in parallel, as in a distributing system.

An apparatus resembling a Jacquard for weaving small figures (usually about 12 - 16 threads, seldom more than 36 - 40 threads).

A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.

An apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant.

art of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.

An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery.

ed for many small articles, as combs and buttons, and for insulating material in electric apparatus.

of eccentric combinations of eccentric circles. -- Eccentric gear. (Mach.) (a) The whole apparatus, strap, and other parts, by which the motion of an eccentric is transmitted, as in the steam engine. (b) A cogwheel set to turn about an eccentric axis used to give variable rotation. -- Eccentric hook or gab, a hook-sh…

An apparatus for determining the amount of oil contained in any substance, or for ascertaining the degree of purity of oil.