machiner (mashener)

A coach-horse; a horse that draws a stage-coach. [Eng.] Is it not known that steady old machiners , broken for years to double harne , will encourage and countenance their "flippant" progeny in kicking over the traces? Lawrence, Sword and Gown, xi. machine-ruler (ma-shēn'röʻler), n . 1. A machine which lines or rules paper according to patterns.-2. A modification of this machine for subdividing accurately scales and the like. machinery (ma-she'ne-ri), n. [F. machinerie , machinery, machine , machine: see machine, n.] 1. The parts of a machine considered collectively; any combination of mechanical means designed to work together so as to effect a given end: as, the machinery of a watch, or of a canal-lock. It is most probable that the rain waters were conveyed from the building, po ibly to the temple, where it might be nece ary to raise the water to a certain height; or it might relate to some machinery of the antient super stition. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 107. 2. Machines collectively; a congeries or a emblage of machines: as, the machinery of a cotton-mill is often moved by a single wheel. In an insurance policy, machinery includes tools and implements of manufacture. 3561 forming operations formerly accomplished by means of hand-tools, as planing, drilling, sawing, etc., and taking its special name from the kind of work performed, as planing -machine, drilling-machine, etc. Also called engine -tool. machine-twist (ma-shen'twist), n. A three cord silk thread made with a twist from right to left, intended especially for use in the sew ing-machine. machine-work (ma-shēn'werk), n. 1. Work done by a machine, as distinguished from that done by hand; specifically, in English printing offices, pre -work done on a machine, in distinction from pre -work done on a hand-pre . -2. The product of such work; articles manufactured wholly or chiefly by machinery. machinist (ma-she'nist), n. [F. mach in i ste = Sp. Pg. maquinista = It. mac chin ist a; as ma chine + -ist.] 1. A constructor of machines and engines, or one versed in the principles of machines; in a general sense, one who invents or constructs mechanical devices of any kind. Has the insufficiency of machinists hitherto disgraced the imagery of the poet? or is it in itself too sublime for scenical contrivances to keep pace with? Steevens, General Note on Macbeth. 2. One who tends or works a machine. [Rare.] -3. In the rating of the United States navy, an engine-room artificer or attendant.-4. In U. S. politics, an adherent of the machine, or a supporter of its methods. The Nation, XXXVI. 520.-5. In the history of art, one of those Italian painters of about the seventeenth century (a period of artistic decline) who worked mechanically or according to rigid rules. He (Franceschini] is reckoned among those painters of the decline of art to whom the general name of machinist is applied. Encyc. Brit ., IX. 687. IMG:content-0029.png:[blocks in formation]