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A contrivance, as an oil cup, for supplying a lubricant to machinery.

persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames. J. & H. Smith. H. Martineau.

To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.

Of or pertaining to the machinery of a poem; acting or used as a machine.[Obs.] Dryden.

hole through which a man may descend or creep into a drain, sewer, steam boiler, parts of machinery, etc., for cleaning or repairing.

The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency.

Of or pertaining to a machine or to machinery or tools; made or formed by a machine or with tools; as, mechanical precision; mechanical products. We have also divers mechanical arts. Bacon.

Written, copied, or recorded by machinery; produced by mechanography; as, a mechanographic record of changes of temperature; mechanographic prints.

A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.

The shafting, gearing, and other driving machinery of mils.

A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set up their machinery.

Of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining machinery; a mining region. Mining engineering. See the Note under Engineering.

ch.), a natural agent, as water, steam, wind, electricity, etc., used to impart motion to machinery; a motor; a mover.

balloon; hence, the framework forming the body of a dirigible balloon, and containing the machinery, passengers, etc.

a vessel after a deduction from the gross tonnage has been made, to allow space for crew, machinery, etc.

acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery. Fairholt.

Right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as, the house is in order; the machinery is out of order. Locke.

tion of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery.

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.