Word Meanings - BLANCHARDLATHE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of wood-turning lathe for making noncircular and irregular forms, as felloes, gun stocks, lasts, spokes, etc., after a given pattern. The pattern and work rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed, and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pattern acting as a cam upon a follower wheel traversing slowly along the pattern.

• Irregularist
  One who is irregular.
• SPECTROGRAM
  A photograph, map, or diagram of a spectrum.
• Spectacular
  Of or pertaining to a shows; of the nature of a show.
• Spermatophorous
  Producing seed, or sperm; seminiferous; as, the so-called spermatophorous cells.
• Make-believe
  A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.
• SPERMISM
  The theory, formerly held by many, that the sperm or spermatozoön contains the germ of the future embryo; animalculism.
• Spectrophotometer
  An instrument for measuring or comparing the intensites of the colors of the spectrum.
• Spermologist
  One who treats of, or collects, seeds.
• Actinograph
  An instrument for measuring and recording the variations in the actinic or chemical force of rays of light.
• Parallelism
  The quality or state of being parallel.
• WHEELWORN
  Worn by the action of wheels; as, a wheel-worn road.
• Speculatorial
  Speculatory; speculative.
• Spewed
  of Spew
• Actinozoon
  One of the Actinozoa.
• Rapidly
  In a rapid manner.
• Speechmaker
  One who makes speeches; one accustomed to speak in a public assembly.
• Turned
  of Turn
• Shapely
  Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical.
• Speiskobalt
  Smaltite.

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