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A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.

A woman who makes laws. Shaftesbury.

An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it. Compound lever, a machine consisting of two or more levers acting upon each other. -- Lever escapement. See Escapement. -- Lever jack. See Jack, n., 5. -- Lever watch, a watch having a vibrating lever to connect the action of the escape…

elivers it through a spout; a lift pump. -- Lifting rod, a vertical rod lifted by a rock shaft, and imparting motion to a puppet valve; -- used in the engines of river steamboats. -- Lifting sail (Naut.), one which tends to lift a vessel's bow out of water, as jibs and square foresails.

The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage. [Prov. Eng.]

The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called also platt. Raymond.

The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.

A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.

brace. (b) (Naut.) The brace attached to the main yard. -- Main center (Steam Engine), a shaft upon which a working beam or side lever swings. -- Main chance. See under Chance. -- Main couple (Arch.), the principal truss in a roof. -- Main deck (Naut.), the deck next below the spar deck; the principal deck. -- Mai…

The shafting, gearing, and other driving machinery of mils.

To cause to seem to be a miracle. [R.] Shaftesbury.

Of or pertaining to miscellanies. Shaftesbury. -- n.

The size of some one part, as the diameter of semi-diameter of the base of a shaft, taken as a unit of measure by which the proportions of the other parts of the composition are regulated. Generally, for columns, the semi-diameter is taken, and divided into a certain number of parts, called minutes (see Minute), though…

and a driving motor mechanically connected, usually on a common bedplate and with the two shafts directly coupled or combined into a single shaft.

-- Mule pulley (Mach.), an idle pulley for guiding a belt which transmits motion between shafts that are not parallel. -- Mule twist, cotton yarn in cops, as spun on a mule; -- in distinction from yarn spun on a throstle frame.

A good piece, the painters say, must have good muscling, as well as coloring and drapery. Shaftesbury.

r the end of an object, formed by a groove around it; as, a neck forming the journal of a shaft.

A small convex molding surrounding a column at the jinction of the shaft and capital. Weale.

he heart can not possibly remain neutral, but constantly takes part one way or the other. Shaftesbury.

One of the handles which project from a scythe snath; also, [Prov. Eng.], the shaft of a wagon.