temple3 (templ)

[F. temple, templet.] An attachment to a loom for keeping the cloth stretched, while the reed beats the threads into place after each throw of the shuttle. One form is automatic, releasing the cloth and then stretching it after each stroke of the lay. temple le (tem'pl-les), a. [ pattern, guide, or model used to indicate the shape any piece of work is to a ume when finished. It may also be used as a tool in modeling plastic material, or as a guide placed in a milling-machine, shaper-lathe, or other automatic cutting machine. In these applications it may be a thin piece of wood or metal, with one or all the edges cut in profile to the shape of the baluster, cornice, part of a machine, or other object to be wrought to shape. Templets are also used as guides in filing sheet metal to shape, as in making small bra gears for clocks, sheets of bra being clamped between steel templets, and all the parts projecting beyond the edges being Templet for a filed away. Templets are used in founding as patterns in forming molds in loam. 2. A strip of metal used in boiler-making, pierced with a series of holes, and serving as a guide in marking out a line of rivet-holes.-3. In building: (a) A short piece of timber or a large stone placed in a wall to receive the impost of a girder, beam, etc., and distribute its weight. (b) A beam or plate spanning a dooror window-space to sustain joists and throw Baluster. their weight on the piers. (c) One of the wedges in a building-block. E. H. Knight. -4. Same as temple3.-5. In a brilliant, same as bezel, 2. See cut under brilliant. Also template . templify (tem'pli-fi), v. t.; pret. and pp. tem plified, ppr. templifying. To make into a temple [Rare.] The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary templify The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary That shall we come to, if we can take order that while we be here, before we go hence, our bodies, we get them templified , as I may say, procure they be framed after the similitude of a Temple, this Temple in the text [John ii. 19]. Bp. Andrews , Sermons, II. 361. (Davies.)