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Platel :: Platel (n.) A small dish.

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..

Impression :: Impression (n.) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, or the like..

Frankfort Black :: Frankfort black () A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc..

Laminitis :: Laminitis (n.) Inflammation of the laminae or fleshy plates along the coffin bone of a horse; founder.

Stereotype :: Stereotype (n.) A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, used for printing..

Plate :: Plate (n.) Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver..

Bare :: Bare (n.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather..

Ironclad :: Ironclad (n.) A naval vessel having the parts above water covered and protected by iron or steel usually in large plates closely joined and made sufficiently thick and strong to resist heavy shot.

Thin :: Thin (superl.) Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering..

Gizzard :: Gizzard (n.) A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks..

Phonograph :: Phonograph (n.) An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration

Water Plate :: Water plate () A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket.

Arm :: Arm (v. t.) To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency; as, to arm the hit of a sword; to arm a hook in angling..

Contemplate :: Contemplate (v. i.) To consider or think studiously; to ponder; to reflect; to muse; to meditate.

Bivalve :: Bivalve (n.) A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca..

Clout :: Clout (n.) To quard with an iron plate, as an axletree..

Scale :: Scale (n.) The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. See Illust. of Pocketknife.

Epiplastron :: Epiplastron (n.) One of the first pair of lateral plates in the plastron of turtles.

Genouillere :: Genouillere (n.) A metal plate covering the knee.

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