Word Meanings - MACHINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.

• Constrainedly
  By constraint or compulsion; in a constrained manner.
• Primero
  A game at cards, now unknown.
• Desireless
  Free from desire.
• Effectual
  Producing, or having adequate power or force to produce, an intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive.
• Transmit
  To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, to transmit a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money, or bills of exchange, from one c
• ANOTHERGATES
  Of another sort. [Obs.] "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.
• Generality
  The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars.
• Calculater
  of Calculate
• Machine
  In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley
• Complexioned
  Having (such) a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark-complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person.
• Modified
  of Modify
• Consist
  To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained.
• Consistence
  Alt. of Consistency
• Moveless
  Motionless; fixed.
• Constrainer
  One who constrains.
• Primerole
  See Primrose.
• Desirer
  One who desires, asks, or wishes.

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