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A planing machine with a reversing tool, to plane both ways.

ly to the temperature of the cold chamber into which it is finally exhausted. This cycle, reversed, is used in refrigerating machines.

table connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very generally in locomotives and marine engines.

e the weather by the arts of magic. -- Medicine seal, a small gem or paste engraved with reversed characters, to serve as a seal. Such seals were used by Roman physicians to stamp the names of their medicines.

A prefix meaning between, with, after, behind, over, about, reversely; as, metachronism, the error of placing after the correct time; metaphor, lit., a carrying over; metathesis, a placing reversely.

A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.

lt of such repeated additions; also, the rule by which the operation is performed; -- the reverse of division.

in which the lights and shades of the original, and the relations of right and left, are reversed.

A prefix signifying to, toward, before, against, reversely, etc.; also, as a simple intensive; as in oblige, to bind to; obstacle, something standing before; object, lit., to throw against; obovate, reversely, ovate. Ob- is commonly assimilated before c, f, g, and p, to oc-, of-, og-, and op-.

Lanceolate in the reversed order, that is, narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex.

a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.

lding, the section of which is the form of the letter S, with the convex part above; cyma reversa. See Illust. under Cyma.

scles induced by exposure to severe cold, in which the electrical action of the muscle is reversed.

atchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel. [Written also paul, or pall.] Pawl bitt (Naut.), a heavy timber, set abaft the windlass, to receive the strain of the pawls. -- Pawl rim or ring…

nerated by the passage of the current in one direction will be absorbed if the current is reversed.

his old guilt." Chaucer. Death is deferred, and penitenance has room To mitigate, if not reverse, the doom. Dryden.

A genus of fresh-water Pulmonifera, having reversed spiral shells. See Pond snail, under Pond.

The reverse of a coin. See Reverse. Cross and pile. See under Cross. -- Dry pile. See under Dry.

inning, like that of the triclinic feldspar, producing fine parallel bands in alternately reversed positions.

f the East India Company; -- so called from its bearing the figure of a portcullis on the reverse.