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An instrument or machine for comparing anything to be measured with a standard measure; -- applied especially to a machine for comparing standards of length.

A machine for adding numbers and making a printed record of the sum.

A calculating machine; an arithmometer.

Same as Leader. Prime conductor (Elec.), the largest conductor of an electrical machine, serving to collect, accumulate, or retain the electricity.

A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape.

The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley.

d paper used for taking copies of letters, etc., in a copying press. -- Copying press, a machine for taking by pressure, an exact copy of letters, etc., written in copying ink.

A machine for cutting up stalks of corn for food of cattle.

A machine that separates the kernels of corn from the cob.

A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts.

A dredging machine for excavating canals, etc.

A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations. Knight.

aft; esp., one which receives motion from a line shaft in a factory and transmits it to a machine.

A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock. Knight.

A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.

A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker. [U.S.]

A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity betwe…

To pack in a crate or case for transportation; as, to crate a sewing machine; to crate peaches.

A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.

Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.