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See Ridgepole.

A bedplate; as, the soleplate of a steam engine.

To spatter; to splash.

Uproar. Jamieson.

Same as Templet.

Thin iron sheets coated with an alloy of lead and tin; -- so called because made up of three metals.

A turntable.

To take out the folds or twists of, as something previously platted; to unfold; to unwreathe.

A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand. [Written also vamplet.]

A fogged plate.

The spotted flycatcher. It builds its nest on walls. [Prov. Eng.]

A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket. Knight.

A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after exposure it is developed and fixed.

To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes. [R.]

t, or from other ideas which naturally accompany it; as the solidity of marble when contemplated apart from its color or figure. -- Abstract terms, those which express abstract ideas, as beauty, whiteness, roundness, without regarding any object in which they exist; or abstract terms are the names of orders, genera or…

One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist. Hume.

Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.

A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

colors. They are purely subjective sensations of color which often result from the contemplation of actually colored bodies. -- Accidental point (Persp.), the point in which a right line, drawn from the eye, parallel to a given right line, cuts the perspective plane; so called to distinguish it from the principal poi…

, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.