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- Wire - n. - A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel.
- Wire - n. - A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.
- Wire - v. t. - To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.
- Wire - v. t. - To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.
- Wire - v. t. - To snare by means of a wire or wires.
- Wire - v. t. - To send (a message) by telegraph.
- Wire - v. i. - To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.
- Wire - v. i. - To send a telegraphic message.
- Wire-drawer - n. - One who draws metal into wire.
- Wire-heel - n. - A disease in the feet of a horse or other beast.
- Wire-puller - n. - One who pulls the wires, as of a puppet; hence, one who operates by secret means; an intriguer.
- Wire-pulling - n. - The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence, secret influence or management, especially in politics; intrigue.
- Wire-tailed - a. - Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules.
- Wire-worker - n. - One who manufactures articles from wire.
- Wired - imp. & p. p. - of Wire
- Wiredraw - v. t. - To form (a piece of metal) into wire, by drawing it through a hole in a plate of steel.
- Wiredraw - v. t. - Hence, to draw by art or violence.
- Wiredraw - v. t. - Hence, also, to draw or spin out to great length and tenuity; as, to wiredraw an argument.
- Wiredraw - v. t. - To pass, or to draw off, (as steam) through narrow ports, or the like, thus reducing its pressure or force by friction.
- Wiredrawing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Wiredraw
- Wiredrawn - p. p. - of Wiredraw
- Wiredrew - imp. - of Wiredraw
- Wirework - n. - Work, especially openwork, formed of wires.
- Wireworm - n. - One of the larvae of various species of snapping beetles, or elaters; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument. Wireworms are sometimes very destructive to the roots of plants. Called also wire grub.
- Wireworm - n. - A galleyworm.
- Pin - n. - Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.
- Clothesline - n. - A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
- Guy - n. - A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which holds in place the end of a boom, spar, or yard in a ship; a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened.
- Comb - n. - The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- Couch - v. t. - To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.
- Cittern - n. - An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum.
- Picker - n. - A priming wire for cleaning the vent.
- Wire - v. t. - To snare by means of a wire or wires.
- Cowl - n. - A wire cap for the smokestack of a locomotive.
- Wire - v. t. - To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.
- Needle - n. - A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.
- Card - n. - An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.
- Rheophore - n. - A connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus, traversed by a current.
- Lametta - n. - Foil or wire made of gold, silver, or brass.
- Shifter - n. - A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
- Knout - n. - A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh.
- Griddle - n. - A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners.
- Bridge - n. - A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit.
- Loop - n. - A wire forming part of a main circuit and returning to the point from which it starts.
- Gauze - n. - A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze.
- Wire - v. t. - To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.
- Spinet - n. - A keyed instrument of music resembling a harpsichord, but smaller, with one string of brass or steel wire to each note, sounded by means of leather or quill plectrums or jacks. It was formerly much used.
- Bobbin - n. - A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current.
- Fusee - n. - A small packet of explosive material with wire appendages allowing it to be conveniently attached to a railroad track. It will explode with a loud report when run over by a train, and is used to provide a warning signal to the engineer.
- Blue grass - - A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire grass.
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