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- Machine - n. - In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.
- Machine - n. - Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle.
- Machine - n. - A person who acts mechanically or at will of another.
- Machine - n. - A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine.
- Machine - n. - A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends.
- Machine - n. - Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
- Machine - v. t. - To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.
- Machined - imp. & p. p. - of Machine
- Machiner - n. - One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
- Machinery - n. - Machines, in general, or collectively.
- Machinery - n. - The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch.
- Machinery - n. - The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected.
- Machinery - n. - The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose.
- Androides - n. - A machine or automaton in the form of a human being.
- Bolster - n. - the perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
- Grubber - n. - One who, or that which, grubs; especially, a machine or tool of the nature of a grub ax, grub hook, etc.
- Motor - n. - A prime mover; a machine by means of which a source of power, as steam, moving water, electricity, etc., is made available for doing mechanical work.
- Electromotor - n. - An apparatus or machine for producing motion and mechanical effects by the action of electricity; an electro-magnetic engine.
- Work - n. - Hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform; as, a machine works well.
- Heliotrope - n. - An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
- Ventilator - n. - A contrivance for effecting ventilation; especially, a contrivance or machine for drawing off or expelling foul or stagnant air from any place or apartment, or for introducing that which is fresh and pure.
- Cropper - n. - A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.
- Scutcher - n. - An implement or machine for scutching hemp, flax, or cotton; etc.; a scutch; a scutching machine.
- Haymaker - n. - A machine for curing hay in rainy weather.
- Glazer - n. - A tool or machine used in glazing, polishing, smoothing, etc.; amoung cutlers and lapidaries, a wooden wheel covered with emery, or having a band of lead and tin alloy, for polishing cutlery, etc.
- Reel - n. - A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches.
- Candroy - n. - A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing.
- Tedder - n. - A machine for stirring and spreading hay, to expedite its drying.
- Parcel - v. t. - To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc.
- Scale - n. - The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when applied to the whole instrument or apparatus for weighing. Also used figuratively.
- Devil - n. - A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.
- Stoker - v. t. - One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire.
- Transplanter - n. - One who transplants; also, a machine for transplanting trees.
- Trispaston - n. - A machine with three pulleys which act together for raising great weights.
- Comber - n. - One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc.
- Jack - n. - A compact, portable machine for planing metal.
- Deckle - n. - A separate thin wooden frame used to form the border of a hand mold, or a curb of India rubber or other material which rests on, and forms the edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the width of the paper.
- Scala - n. - A machine formerly employed for reducing dislocations of the humerus.
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- H2810 חִשָּׁבוֹן - 2810 חִשָּׁבוֹן - חִשָּׁבוֹן - - chishshâbôwn - khish-shaw-bone' - from חָשַׁב; a contrivance, i.e. actual (a warlike machine) or mental (a machination); engine, invention. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H4284 מַחֲשָׁבָה - 4284 מַחֲשָׁבָה - מַחֲשָׁבָה - - machăshâbâh - makh-ash-aw-baw' - or מַחֲשֶׁבֶת; from חָשַׁב; a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice); cunning (work), curious work, device(-sed), imagination, invented, means, purpose, thought. - Noun Feminine - heb