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A rope of hair or of maguey fiber, for tying horses, etc. [Southwestern U. S.]

Of or pertaining to Mecca, in Arabia. -- n.

A mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments. An art quite lost with our mechanics. Sir T. Browne.…

Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter, as distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical theory; mechanical deposits.

To cause to become mechanical.

In a mechanical manner.

The state or quality of being mechanical.

One skilled in the theory or construction of machines; a machinist. Boyle.

Pertaining to, connected with, or dependent upon, both mechanics and chemistry; -- said especially of those sciences which treat of such phenomena as seem to depend on the laws both of mechanics and chemistry, as electricity and magnetism.

That science, or branch of applied mathematics, which treats of the action of forces on bodies.

The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the arrangement or relation of the parts of anything as adapted to produce an effect; as, the mechanism of a watch; the mechanism of a sewing machine; the mechanism of a seed pod.

A maker of machines; one skilled in mechanics.

To cause to be mechanical. Shelley.

One of a number of copies of anything multiplied mechanically.

Treating of mechanics. [R.]

An artist who, by mechanical means, multiplies copies of works of art.

The art of mechanically multiplying copies of a writing, or any work of art.

That branch of science which treats of moving machines.

One of a religious congregation of the Roman Catholic Church devoted to the improvement of Armenians.

A kind of lace made at, or originating in, Mechlin, in Belgium.