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An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack; as, Yankee notions. [Colloq.]

, by which the plant multiplies exceedingly, especially in cotton fields. -- Nut lock, a device, as a metal plate bent up at the corners, to prevent a nut from becoming unscrewed, as by jarring. -- Nut pine. (Bot.) See under Pine. -- Nut rush (Bot.), a genus of cyperaceous plants (Scleria) having a hard bony achene.…

The notch, fork, or other device on the gunwale of a boat, in which the oar rests in rowing. See Rowlock.

A device for recording the length and rapidity of stride and the number of steps taken by a walker.

Any device for producing electric oscillations; esp., an apparatus for generating electric waves in a system of wireless telegraphy.

tinct vocal parts. "A part song differs from a madrigal in its exclusion of contrapuntual devices; from a glee, in its being sung by many voices, instead of by one only, to each part." Stainer & Barrett.

oved from the mold without injuring it. Pattern box, chain, or cylinder (Figure Weaving), devices, in a loom, for presenting several shuttles to the picker in the proper succession for forming the figure. -- Pattern card. (a) A set of samples on a card. (b) (Weaving) One of the perforated cards in a Jacquard apparatus…

A device intended to replace the wheel of a self-propelled vehicle for use on rough roads and to approximate to the smoothness in running of a wheel on a metal track. The tread consists of a number of rubber shod feet which are connected by ball-and-socket joints to the ends of sliding spokes. Each spoke has attached t…

Louisiana; -- a nickname alluding to the device on its seal.

An instrument or device to be introduced into and worn in the vagina, to support the uterus, or remedy a malposition.

A device for measuring the difference in phase of two alternating currents of electromotive forces.

A device by which a single-phase current is split into two or more currents differing in phase. It is used in starting single-phase induction motors.

A device for giving shifting effects of color to a photograph. The unmounted print, made translucent, is illuminated from behind with colored light.

A device, consisting essentially of an electric arc and a camera, by which a series of photographs of the variations of the arc due to sound waves are obtained for reproduction by means of a selenium cell and a telephone.

One who, or that which, primes; specifically, an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other capable for igniting a charge of gunpowder.

A device, with valves, for raising water by steam, partly by atmospheric pressure, and partly by the direct action of the steam on the water, without the intervention of a piston; -- also called vacuum pump.

To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; as, to purchase a cannon.

A simple device, resembling a button in form, so arranged that pushing it closes an electric circuit, as of an electric bell.

A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts.

A substance or device that has its conductivity altered in some way by electric waves, as a coherer.