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The breastplate taken by itself.

Having a covering of bony plates, resembling a cuirass;- said of certain fishes.

A cuirass or breastplate. [Obs.] Spenser.

- Curb pins (Horology), the pins on the regulator which restrain the hairspring. -- Curb plate (Arch.), a plate serving the purpose of a curb. -- Deck curb. See under Deck.

An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts.

A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.

A musical instrument of brass, shaped like a circular dish or a flat plate, with a handle at the back; -- used in pairs to produce a sharp ringing sound by clashing them together.

name given to several species of Pleuronectes . TheAmerican rough dab is Hippoglossoides platessoides.

a pad or other device used by printers, engravers, etc., as for dabbing type or engraved plates with ink.

An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.

A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace. Dam plate (Blast Furnace), an iron plate in front of the dam, to strengthen it.

That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air. (b) A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time. Nor did Sabrina's p…

A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.

btained in the distillation of coal tar, and containing phenol, naphthalus, etc. -- Dead plate (Mach.), a solid covering over a part of a fire grate, to prevent the entrance of air through that part. -- Dead pledge, a mortgage. See Mortgage. -- Dead point. (Mach.) See Dead center. -- Dead reckoning (Naut.), the met…

A form of the voltaic battery having large plates, used for producing rapid and powerful combustion.

y, God, the Supreme Being. This great poet and philosopher [Simonides], the more he contemplated the nature of the Deity, found that he waded but the more out of his depth. Addison.

Delftware. Five nothings in five plates of delph. Swift.

To free from polarization, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery.

A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.

fference . . . between them and another description of public creditors. A. Hamilton. The plates were all of the meanest description. Macaulay.