Definition of piece

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Piece (n.) A fact; an item; as, a piece of news; a piece of knowledge..

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Made :: Made (a.) Artificially produced; pieced together; formed by filling in; as, made ground; a made mast, in distinction from one consisting of a single spar..
Shiner :: Shiner (n.) A bright piece of money.
Apiece :: Apiece (adv.) Each by itself; by the single one; to each; as the share of each; as, these melons cost a shilling apiece..
Balk :: Balk (v. i.) A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside..
Sole :: Sole (n.) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel..
Comb :: Comb (n.) The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked..
Break :: Break (v. i.) To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder..
Pile :: Pile (n.) A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc..
Mince :: Mince (v. t.) To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat..
Lens :: Lens (n.) A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the other plane, and commonly used, either singly or combined, in optical instruments, for changing the direction of rays of light, and thus magnifying objects, or otherwise modifying vision. In practice, the curved surfaces are usually spherical, though rarely cylindrical, or of some other figure..
Autoplasty :: Autoplasty (n.) The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds..
Travel :: Travel (n.) The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve..
Cheek :: Cheek (n.) Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc..
Sole :: Sole (n.) The bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather which constitutes the bottom..
Throughout :: Throughout (adv.) In every part; as, the cloth was of a piece throughout..
Foreland :: Foreland (n.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat.
Chink :: Chink (v. t.) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other..
Domino :: Domino (n.) A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played.
Killock :: Killock (n.) A small anchor; also, a kind of anchor formed by a stone inclosed by pieces of wood fastened together..
Stock :: Stock (n.) The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor.
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