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A templet or tool by which vessels are shaped on a potter's wheel.

the process of jigging. (b) (Metal Working) A machine with a rotary milling cutter and a templet by which the action of the cutter is guided or limited; -- used for forming the profile of an irregularly shaped piece; a profiling machine.

vinity; a Chinese idol. "Critic in jars and josses." Colman (1761). Joss house, a Chinese temple or house for the Chinese mode of worship. -- Joss stick, a reed covered with a paste made of the dust of odoriferous woods, or a cylinder made wholly of the paste; -- burned by the Chinese before an idol.…

Jews who accepted Christianity but still adhered to the law of Moses and worshiped in the temple at Jerusalem.

Closely; nearly; almost. Just at the point of death. Sir W. Temple.

One of several vessels in Solomon's Temple in which the offerings for burnt sacrifices were washed.

employment. The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care. Sir W. Temple.

be) and employed in various duties connected with the tabernacle first, and afterward the temple, such as the care of the building, bringing of wood and other necessaries for the sacrifices, the music of the services, etc.

ood; to subsist; -- with on or by; as, to live on spoils. Those who live by labor. Sir W. Temple.

of. [R.] How should you go about to lose him a wife he loves with so much passion Sir W. Temple.

of affection; -- often employed in endearing address. "Trust me, love." Dryden. Open the temple gates unto my love. Spenser.

One given to luxury. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

the poles; -- called also natural magnet. Dinocrates began to make the arched roof of the temple of Arsinoë all of magnet, or this loadstone. Holland. Two magnets, heaven and earth, allure to bliss, The larger loadstone that, the nearer this. Dryden.

A kind of dance. Sir W. Temple.

e; to form; to amount to. The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea, Make but one temple for the Deity. Waller.

mist. A prince of great aspiring thoughts; in the main, a manager of his treasure. Sir W. Temple.

A sacred inclosure or temple; -- so called by the islanders of the Pacific Ocean.

were workers of gold, silver, and copper. Their architecture comprised elaborately carved temples and places, and they possessed a superior calendar, and a developed system of hieroglyphic writing, with records said to go back to about 700 a. d.

vice they could do the state was to mend the lives of the persons who composed it. Sir W. Temple.

se, Which was the model of that Danish seal. Shak. You have the models of several ancient temples, though the temples and the gods are perished. Addison.