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A small tool used in cleaving laths. Knight.

One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull. Hudibras.

A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon.

A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished.

wood, obtained in the West India Islands. It is used in cabinetmaking, for the handles of tools, and for various fancy articles.

A tool to polish the edge of a sole. Knight.

A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.

. (b) A night stand with a compartment for holding a chamber vessel. (c) A kind of close stool.

cd is a ratio compounded of the simple ratios a:c and b:d. -- Compound rest (Mech.), the tool carriage of an engine lathe. -- Compound screw (Mech.), a screw having on the same axis two or more screws with different pitch (a differential screw), or running in different directions (a right and left screw). -- Compoun…

rt, difficulty, or trouble; commodiousness; ease; accommodation. Thus necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow chairs. Cowper. We are rather intent upon the end of God's glory than our own conveniency. Jer. Taylor.

advantage; well adapted to use; handly; as, a convenient house; convenient implements or tools.

A drill or cutting tool for countersinking holes.

other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. [Obs.] A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.

A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.

A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.

A tool, or a sewing-mashine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by.

A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool. A creature of the queen's, Lady Anne Bullen. Shak. Both Charles himself and his creature, Laud. Macualay.

A low stool. [Scot.]

A low stool.

A wooden tool used in graining leather. Knight.