platblindt (plat blind)

Entirely blind. Hal liwell. plate (plāt), п. [ Armor of Plate. a, plate-armor, as distinguished from b, chain-armor. sheet of metal; MHG. plate, G. platte, a plate, a shaven or bald pate; from the adj., F. plat, etc., flat: see plat3. Cf. patel, the same word, with lo of me dial l. The uses of plate in part overlap those of the related noun plat3.] 1. A sheet of met al of uniform thickne and even surface: as, a plate of gold; a steel plate. hence, armor made of sheets of metal, as distinguished from mail or chain - armor. See cut in preceding column. Over that a fyn hauberk Was al ywrought of Jewes werk, Ful strong it was of plate . Chaucer, Sir Thopas, 1. 154. Ne plate , ne male, could ward so mighty throwes. Spenser, F. Q., II. v. 9. Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Milton , P. L., vi. 368. Squadrons and squares of men in brazen plates . Tennyson , Fair Women. 3. A shallow dish of pottery, porcelain, or metal, on which food is served at table, or from which it is eaten; also, a plateful; a course or portion at table: as, a soup - plate; a fruit - plate; a plate of soup or of fish. Both me and mine he caus'd to dine, And serv'd us all with one plate . The Kings Disguise (Child's Ballads, V. 381). The European pilgrims dine and sup in the refectory with the monks; they are well served with three or four plates , and have excellent white-wine of their own making. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 11. 4. Gold or silver dishes and utensils used at table or in the home, including besides dishes other ve els, as cups, flagons, etc., as well as spoons, knives, forks, etc.: as, a sale of the furniture and plate. A piece of antique plate , bought of St. Mark, With which he here presents you. B. Jonson, Volpone, i. 1. The plate in the hall (all at the Queen's table being gold) was estimated to be worth nearly £400,000. First Year of a Silken Reign, p. 68. 5. Articles which have been covered with a plating of precious metal not solid gold or silver; plated ware. Rich plate , even to the enamelling on gold, rich stuffs, and curious armour were carried to exce . Walpole, Anecdotes, I. 2, note. 6. A cup or flagon or other article of gold or silver awarded to the winner in a contest, as to the owner of the winning horse or the crew of the winning boat in a race; a "cup."-7. A beam or piece of timber laid horizontally in a wall to receive the ends of other tim bers. The plate for roof-timbers, and also for joists, is called a wall - plate. Compare plat3, n., 1.-8. A flat piece of metal, as bra , copper, or steel, on which any representation or inscription is engraved: as, a door - plate; a coffin- plate; especially, such a piece of metal so engraved for impre ion on paper, etc.: as, a book - plate; a card - plate; hence, the printed impre ion from an engraved plate: as, a book illustrated with plates. 9. A duplicate, in one piece of metal, of the face of com posed types or woodcuts. Such plates are are made by electrotype or stereotype proce . Plates of book pages are about one eighth of an inch thick; plates of newspaper-pages are much thicker. 10. ( a ) In dentistry, a piece of metal or composition fitted to C Carpenters' Plates. a, rafter-plate; b, purlin-plate; c, crown wall-plate. the mouth and holding the teeth of a denture. (b) In ho rology, one of the two parallel pieces of metal to which the wheels are pivoted in a watch or clock. (c) The flat piece of metal forming the side of the lock of a firearm. (d) A flat piece of metal usually forming a part of the bed or bosh of a metallurgical furnace. (e) A commonly rectangular piece of gla used in photography to receive the picture. (f) In base ball, the home base. From the nature of things, a ball so knocked that it cannot be caught or fielded to the plate before the man can make the entire circuit of the bases yields an earned, or, as it is in such instance more generally called, a "home run." The Century , XXXVIII. 835. (g) Naut., a bar or band of iron, as in futtock plates, channel - plate, etc.; specifically, in iron ships, the metal which forms part of the strake on the ship's side. - 11. Shale of the coal-measures. It is in these strata that the finest specimens of the coal-plants are most frequently found. Also called binds.-12. Plate-gla . IMG:content-0366.jpg:[blocks in formation] 13. The finest quality of pewter.-14. In an at., zoöl., and bot., a plate-like part, organ, or structure; a lamina or lamella; a layer: not specific, the thing indicated being designated by a qualifying term. See cuts under carapace, Coluber, and whalebone.-15t. A Spanish money of account. Also called old plate. Eight reals of old plate made the peso de plat a, or piaster-that is, the Spanish dollar. Be like he has some new trick for a purse; And if he has, he is worth three hundred plates . Marlowe, Jew of Malta, ii. Realms and islands were As plates dropp'd from his pocket. Shak ., A. and C., v. 2. 92. Ambulacral plate. See ambulacral . - A pair of platest, armor for the breast and back. Somme woln have a peyre plates large. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1262. Argentine plate, German silver. The manufacture of German silver, or Argentine plate , became an object of commercial importance. Ure, Dict., III. 414. Armor of plate. Same as plate - armor. --Auditory plate. See auditory crest, under auditory.-Basilisk plates, plates of enameled pottery decorated with a basilisk, or similar animal, which are found from time to time in the neighborhood of Quimper, in the department of Finistère in France. They are thought to be specimens of the faïence of Quimper, but have often been cla ed as Rouen ware. See Quimper pottery, under pottery. - Bobstay, branchial, buckled plates. See the qualifying words. - British plate. Same as albata. - Bulb plate, in iron and steel - manuf., a plate along the margin of which is rolled a rib or bulb thicker than the body of the plate. The plate resembles tee-iron, except that the head of the tee, or what corresponds to it, is more ma ive. Such plates are used in iron ship-building for keelsons, etc., in bridge-building, and in iron architecture. - Cardiac, cir cum esophageal, clinoid plate. See the adjectives.Coat of plates, coif of plate. See coat2, coif.-Compound armor-plate. See under armor - plate. - CorrectIng-plate. Same as compensator (a). - Costal, cribriform, dry plate. See the adjectives. - Dovetail-plates. See dovetail. - Dumb-plate, the part at the bottom near the doors of a furnace where there are no air-openings or spaces; the dead-plate. - End och rome, gate-end, genital, gular plates. See the qualifying words. Equatorial plate, biol., the collection chromatin-fibers in the equator of the nuclear spindle during karyokinesis.Gold plate, gold ve els for use or ornament; especially, table utensils of gold.-Half-tone plates. See photo proce .-Head-block plate. See head - block.-Horn plate, in embryol., the remaining ectoderm of a germ, forming the epidermis of the embryo after the formation from ectoderm of the rudiment of the spinal canal. From this time the remaining portion of the skin-sensory layer is called the horn - plate or horn-layer, because the outer skin (epidermis) with its horny appendages nails, hair, etc. - develops from it. Haeckel, Evol. of Man (trans.), I. 306. Induction-plate, a small insulated metal plate placed opposite one of the quadrants of an electrometer, used for reducing the sensitivene of the instrument. For this purpose the electrified body is connected with the induction-plate instead of with the quadrant directly. In order that somewhat larger differences may be measured, the Induction Plate is introduced to diminish the sensitivene . J. E. H. Gordon , Elect. and Mag., I. 44. Jugular, madreporic, medullary plate. See the adjectives. Locking-plate. Same as count - wheel . - Main plate, the principal plate of a lock. Muscular plate. Same as muscle - plate . - Nasal, negative, occipital, ocular, orbital plate. See the adjectives. -Patching up plates. See patch . - Patent plate, a name given in England to cylinder-gla . - Per i somatic plates. See peri somatic . Plate diamond. See diamond . - Plate of a furnace. See dead - plate . - Plate of wind, in organ building , the flat sheet or jet of air which is projected through the flue of a flue-pipe against the upper lip of the mouth, and by the fluctuations of which the tone is produced.-Plate-welding hammer, a steam-hammer of special form. E. H. Knight . - Pterygostomial plates, radial plates. See the adjectives. - Ribbed plate, sheet metal with its surface alternately ribbed or corrugated. Ribbed plate is made by using a roller with grooves on its surface. Workshop Receipts , 1st ser., p. 55. Ship-plate, an inferior quality of wrought-iron plate. Wrought-iron plates... are manufactured of... coarse, brittle, and uncertain material, sometimes sold as ship IMG:content-0367.png:[graphic] plate. R. Wilson, Steam Boilers, p. 32. Terminal plate, in biol., the end-plate of a nerve-fiber. -Wheel-guard plate ( mil it.), the rub-iron of a field. artillery carriage. (See also armor- plate, bottom - plate, floating-plate, horn-plate, sieve- plate, spreading - plate, tie plate.) plate (plāt), v. t.; pret. and pp. plated, ppr. plating. [ Marshal, ask yonder knight in arms Both who he is and why he cometh hither Thus plated in habiliments of war. Shak., Rich. II., i. 3. 28. 2. To overlay or coat with silver, gold, or other metal; specifically, to attach a perm a plate nent covering or film of one metal to (the surface of another).-3. To arm or cover (a ship) with armor-plates.-4. To beat into thin flat pieces or lam inæ.-5. To implant (microorganisms) in a thin layer of gelatin spread upon a gla plate. See plate - culture. - Chemical plating or dipping, a proce performed in some cases by the mere immersion of one metal in a hot or cold solution of some salt of another metal, as in plating iron with copper by dipping the former in sulphate-of-copper solution, or the coating of bra with tin by boiling the bra in a solution of cream of tartar to which scraps of tin have been added. Tin-plating of this sort is also variously called washing, tinning, silvering, or whitening. It is much employed in various arts, particularly in the manufacture of bra pins. The words plate and plating are often coupled with the prefixed name of the metal which forms the outer surface: as, silver - plate, silver - plating, to plate with silver, the proce of plating with silver; nickel - plate, nickel - plat ing, to plate with nickel, the proce of plating with nickel, etc. See also electroplate, galvanize, 3, and galvanoplas tic.-Dry plating, a proce coating the of iron by rubbing it over with bra (usually a bra -wire brush) till it is covered with adherent bra . The pro ce is used in mending broken cast-iron articles. Sur faces coated may first tinned then sol dered with ordinary tin solder. - Fire-plating (also called fire- gilding when the coating is of gold), plating performed either by a proce of soldering the film or coating directly to the surface of the object to be plated, or, when the coating will not directly adhere, by first coating the object with a metal which has an affinity for both the metal of the object to be plated and the metal used for the plating. Thus iron, to which silver cannot be made to adhere directly, may be silver-plated by first coating it with copper, the latter having affinity for both iron and silver. In fire-plating the surface to be covered is laid over with a suitable flux, upon which the silver-foil is smoothly placed, and the whole is then heated till the metals unite. - Rolled plating, the soldering together of bars of different metals and of considerable thickne , and then rolling the com 4538 2. Covered or overlaid with a different and especially a richer material: as, plated silk hose; plated forks and spoons.-3. In zoöl., covered or protected with hard dermal plates or scutes; scutate or loricate; shielded. - Plated ware, a name especially given to ve els of base metal, etc., coated or plated with gold or silver, as distinguished from plate, п., 4. plate-fleet† (plāt'flēt), n. The ve els engaged in transporting ma es of precious metal; es- pecially, the ve els which transported to Spain the products of the mines in Spanish America. The [Spanish] admiral's ship was called the Armadillo of Carthagena, one of the greater galleys of the royal plate - fleet . Milton , Letters of State. The Plate - Fleet also from Lima comes hither with the Dampier , Voyages, I. 179. King's Treasure. plate-frame (plāt'frām), n. In photog., a frame of any kind for holding or receiving a plate; a dark-slide; ide; a plate-holder. plateful (plat'fül), n. [ much as a plate will hold. plate-gage (plāt'gāj), n. A plate with notched edges used to measure the thickne of metal plates. The notches are of graduated standard measures of thickne , and are numbered in accordance with the thickne es they represent. Different standards are in use. The thickne of a plate is definitely specified only when both the number of the notch it fits and the kind of gage used are named: as, No. 16 Birmingham gage; No. 10 Brown and Sharp's gage; etc. See wire - gage. plate-girder (plat' ger der), n. A girder formed of a single plate of metal, or of a series of plates joined together. plate-gla (plāt glas), n. A superior kind of thick gla used for mirrors, and also for large panes in windows, shop-fronts, etc. (See plate, plater British regulation, are- (1) The maker's mark or initials. (2) The a ay-mark. For gold, the a ay-mark is a crown and figures indicating the number of carats fine. For silver, in England, it is a lion pa ant; in Ireland, a harp crowned; in Glasgow, a lion rampant; and in Edinburgh, a thistle. (3) The hall-mark of the district office. These offices are at London, York, Exeter, Chester, Newcastle, IMG:content-0368.png:[ocr errors][merged small][merged small] El. crowned (maker's name - Eliot); Britannia and lion's head (new standard of silver); castle (mark of the Exeter a ay office); M (date-mark - the year 1712). Birmingham, Sheffield, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dublin. The mark is generally the coat of arms of the town. (4) The date-mark, consisting of a letter which is changed every year. (5) The duty-mark, consisting of the head of the sovereign. This indicates that the duty has been paid. ( Imp. Dict.) All these marks are sometimes called hall marks. 2. In an engraving, the depre ion in the paper around the edges of an impre ion taken from an incised plate. It is caused by the force of the pre when striking off.