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Drawbench :: Drawbench (n.) A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench..

Platefuls :: Platefuls (pl. ) of Platefu.

Anaptychus :: Anaptychus (n.) One of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, as the ammonites..

Soleplate :: Soleplate (n.) A bedplate; as, the soleplate of a steam engine..

Depolarizer :: Depolarizer (n.) A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery..

Backed :: Backed (a.) Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad-backed; hump-backed..

Polarization :: Polarization (n.) An effect produced upon the plates of a voltaic battery, or the electrodes in an electrolytic cell, by the deposition upon them of the gases liberated by the action of the current. It is chiefly due to the hydrogen, and results in an increase of the resistance, and the setting up of an opposing electro-motive force, both of which tend materially to weaken the current of the battery, or that passing through the cell..

Vamplate :: Vamplate (n.) A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand..

Sheet :: Sheet (v. t.) A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf..

Cestoidea :: Cestoidea (n. pl.) A class of parasitic worms (Platelminthes) of which the tapeworms are the most common examples. The body is flattened, and usually but not always long, and composed of numerous joints or segments, each of which may contain a complete set of male and female reproductive organs. They have neither mouth nor intestine. See Tapeworm..

Scaphocerite :: Scaphocerite (n.) A flattened plate or scale attached to the second joint of the antennae of many Crustacea.

Slipper :: Slipper (n.) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment; -- also called shoe, and gib..

Photographometer :: Photographometer (n.) An instrument for determining the sensibility of the plates employed in photographic processes to luminous rays.

Bladed :: Bladed (a.) Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife..

Tarsus :: Tarsus (n.) A plate of dense connective tissue or cartilage in the eyelid of man and many animals; -- called also tarsal cartilage, and tarsal plate..

Horseshoe :: Horseshoe (n.) A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof..

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates..

Excise :: Excise (n.) In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system..

Palette :: Palette (n.) One of the plates covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.

Plateaus :: Plateaus (pl. ) of Platea.

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