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d by passing through it a blast of air, to oxidize and remove sulphur. It is analogous in apparatus to the Bessemer process for decarbonizing cast iron. So called from Pierre Manhès, a French metallurgist, who invented it.

d dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate scientific apparatus.

The apparatus used in Marconi wireless telegraphy.

s, the baggage, munitions, provisions, etc., of an army; or the buildings, libraries, and apparatus of a college, in distinction from its officers.

An optical apparatus in which pictures are viewed through a large lens with stereoptical effects. It is often combined with the stereoscope.

An apparatus which transmits automatically to a central station atmospheric changes as marked by the anemometer, barometer, thermometer, etc.

arth tremor not directly perceptible, but detected only by means of specially constructed apparatus. -- Mi`cro*seis"mic (#), *seis"mic*al (#), a.

One who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows.

A sort of base money or coin. Miter box (Carp. & Print.), an apparatus for guiding a handsaw at the proper angle in making a miter joint; esp., a wooden or metal trough with vertical kerfs in its upright sides, for guides. -- Miter dovetail (Carp.), a kind of dovetail for a miter joint in which there is only one joint…

d having a limited play in a vertical plane, used in hydraulic mining, fire-extinguishing apparatus, etc.

An apparatus for raising a liquid by pressure of air or steam in a reservoir containing the liquid.

nt, and their interconnections), mediated by a patented, standardized system of "didactic apparatus," which is declared to be "auto-regulative." Most of the chief features of the method are borrowed from current methods used in many institutions for training feeble-minded children, and dating back especially to the wor…

ts; a musical sentence; musical persons. Musical, or Music, box, a box or case containing apparatus moved by clockwork so as to play certain tunes automatically. -- Musical fish (Zoöl.), any fish which utters sounds under water, as the drumfish, grunt, gizzard shad, etc. -- Musical glasses, glass goblets or bowls so…

Pertaining to, or in the region of, the lower jaw and the hyoid apparatus; as, the mylohyoid nerve.

ription of muscles, including the study of muscular contraction by the aid of registering apparatus, as by some form of myograph; myology.

An apparatus for smoking tobacco. It has a long flexible tube, and the smoke is drawn through water.

Connected with the lachrymal apparatus and the nose; as, the nasolachrymal, or lachrymal duct.

or, disordered sensibility, etc. -- Nervous system (Anat.), the specialized coördinating apparatus which endows animals with sensation and volition. In vertebrates it is often divided into three systems: the central, brain and spinal cord; the peripheral, cranial and spinal nerves; and the sympathetic. See Brain, Nerv…

An apparatus for determining the amount of nitrogen or some of its compounds in any substance subjected to analysis; an azotometer.

An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate.