templet

[Cf. Low Lat. templatus =vaulted; Fr. templet a stretcher; Latin templum a small timber.] 1. Mach., .: A template (q. v.). 2. Building: (1) A short piece of timber or large stone placed in a wall to receive the impost of a girder, brestsummer, or beam, and distribute its weight; a wall. plate; a torsal. (2) A plate spanning a window or door space to sustain joists and throw their weight on the piers. 3. Shipbuilding : (1) A mold of a certain figure to test or direct the conformation of a timber or other object. (2) A perforated piece or strip by which a line of rivet holes is marked on a plate to be punched. IMG:content-0890.png:[blocks in formation] (3) One of the wedges in a building-block. 4. Weaving: The temple of the horsehair loom is a pair of jaws for each selvedge. [TEMPLE (3), 8. ] *těm'-pli-fy, v . t . [Eng. temple ; -fy.] To make or form into a temple. "Our bodies we get templified ." -Andrewes: Works, ii. 361. těm plin, subst. [Etym. doubtful.) (See compound.) templin-oil, 8. Chem.: Oil of pine-cones. Obtained by distilling the cones of the Silver-fir or of Pinus pumilis . It is colorle , but becomes greenish-yellow on exposure to the air, has an odor of lemons, specific gravity 0.862 at 12°, and boils between 155° and 200°, the greater part distilling over about 175°. It agrees with oil of turpentine in its solubility and refracting power. těm-pô, s. [Ital.=time; Lat. temp us.] Music: A word used to denote the degree of quick ne or rate of movement at which a piece is to be performed; as, Tempo comodo =convenient, easy, mod. erate time; tempo ordinario -ordinary time; tempo primo =first or original time.