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Properate :: Properate (v. t. & i.) To hasten, or press forward..

Physeter :: Physeter (n.) A filtering machine operated by air pressure.

Operative :: Operative (n.) A skilled worker; an artisan; esp., one who operates a machine in a mill or manufactory..

Bull :: Bull (n.) One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5..

Air Brake :: Air brake () A railway brake operated by condensed air.

Tackle :: Tackle (n.) Any instruments of action; an apparatus by which an object is moved or operated; gear; as, fishing tackle, hunting tackle; formerly, specifically, weapons..

Play :: Play (n.) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain plays..

Operate :: Operate (v. t.) To produce, as an effect; to cause..

Pull :: Pull (v. t.) To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar..

Operate :: Operate (v. t.) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine..

Catheterize :: Catheterize (v. t.) To operate on with a catheter.

Butteris :: Butteris (n.) A steel cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the shoulder of the operator. It is operated by a thrust movement, and used in paring the hoofs of horses..

Ricochet :: Ricochet (v. t.) To operate upon by ricochet firing. See Ricochet, n..

Drawboy :: Drawboy (n.) A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office..

Operate :: Operate (v. i.) To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act..

Feed :: Feed (n.) The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work..

Physic :: Physic (v. t.) To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge..

Siren :: Siren (n.) An instrument for producing musical tones and for ascertaining the number of sound waves or vibrations per second which produce a note of a given pitch. The sounds are produced by a perforated rotating disk or disks. A form with two disks operated by steam or highly compressed air is used sounding an alarm to vessels in fog.

Spring :: Spring (v. t.) To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap..

Tilter :: Tilter (n.) One who operates a tilt hammer.

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