machaner

[Eng. mach in(e); -er.] 1. One who works or attends to a machine; a machinist. 2. A horse employed in working or driving a machine. mạ-chân-er-ỹ, s. [Eng. machine; -ry.] I. Literally: 1. A general term applied to mechanical combination of parts for collecting, controlling, and using power, or for producing articles of commerce which may otherwise be, more or le perfectly, made by hand. The first cla of these combinations is usually distinguished by the name of engines; the second, by that of machines. 2. Machines in general; the machines in any place collectively; as, the machinery in a mill. 3. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument designed and constructed to apply and regulate force. II. Figuratively : 1. Any complex system or combination of means and appliances designed to keep anything in motion or action, or to effect a specific purpose or object, or to carry on any institution or organization; as, the machinery of state. 2. The agencies, especially supernatural, by which the plot of an epic or dramatic poem or play is carried out to its catastrophe. mạ-chân-ing, pr. par., a. & s. [MACHINE, v.] A. As pr . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adj .: Acting as a machine, or as a supernatural agency for the carrying out of the plot of an epic or dramatic poem or play; pertaining to the machinery of a poem. "Of Venus and Juno, Jupiter and Mercury, I say nothing, for they were all machining work."- Dryden : Virgil's Æneid. (Dedic.) C. As subst.: The act or proce of working or effecting with a machine; spec if., printing by means of a printing-machine.