machinist

[Eng. mach in(e); -ist; Fr. mach in i ste; Ital. mac chin ist a.] 1. One who constructs machines or engines; one versed in the principles of machinery. 2. One who works or minds a machine. *3. One who devises the machinery of a poem or play. "Has the insufficiency of machinists hitherto disgraced the imagery of the poet?"-Stevens: General Note on Мас beth. machinist's-hammer, s . A hammer which has a flat, round face and an edge-peen transversely of the helve. In some branches of the busine it has two faces; in others, again, it has one face and a pointed peen for riveting. *măch-in-ize, v. t . [Eng. mach in (e); -ize.] To fashion. "The traveler seems to have machinized the rest of the world for his occasion." Emerson: English. Traits, ch. iii. mā-chō, s. [Span.] A name given in California to the striped mullet. ma-chōl, mạh hōl, s . [Heb.] A word often. found in the Old Testament, a ociated with "toph" (timbrel), and almost always rendered in the English version by "dances" or "dancing." But some authorities trace the word to a root meaning "pierced" or "bored," and therefore consider it to have been a flute. It is not improbable that machol and toph may mean "pipe and tabor," but as these two instruments are often a ociated with dancing, our version, and others which follow it cannot in any case be said to be incorrect.