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Electrotypy :: Electrotypy (n.) The process of producing electrotype plates. See Note under Electrotype, n..

Plaque :: Plaque (n.) Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch..

Tramp :: Tramp (n.) A plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot, or the shoe, when digging with a spade..

Diaphragm :: Diaphragm (n.) A calcareous plate which divides the cavity of certain shells into two parts.

Plate :: Plate (n.) Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold..

Plaice :: Plaice (n.) A European food fish (Pleuronectes platessa), allied to the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more..

Extensibility :: Extensibility (n.) The quality of being extensible; the capacity of being extended; as, the extensibility of a fiber, or of a plate of metal..

Tagger :: Tagger (n.) Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge.

Platy :: Platy (a.) Like a plate; consisting of plates.

Soleplate :: Soleplate (n.) The plate forming the back of a waterwheel bucket.

Web :: Web (n.) The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam, or railroad rail..

Contemplate :: Contemplate (v. t.) To consider or have in view, as contingent or probable; to look forward to; to purpose; to intend..

Spangle :: Spangle (n.) A small plate or boss of shining metal; something brilliant used as an ornament, especially when stitched on the dress..

Magnetomotor :: Magnetomotor (n.) A voltaic series of two or more large plates, producing a great quantity of electricity of low tension, and hence adapted to the exhibition of electro-magnetic phenomena..

Lady :: Lady (n.) The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster; -- so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure. It consists of calcareous plates.

Herapathite :: Herapathite (n.) The sulphate of iodoquinine, a substance crystallizing in thin plates remarkable for their effects in polarizing light..

Albata :: Albata (n.) A white metallic alloy; which is made into spoons, forks, teapots, etc. British plate or German silver. See German silver, under German..

Siderography :: Siderography (n.) The art or practice of steel engraving; especially, the process, invented by Perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened, over a soft steel plate, which thus becomes a facsimile of the original. The process has been superseded by electrotypy..

Turret :: Turret (n.) A revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates, within which cannon are mounted. Turrets are used on vessels of war and on land..

Underlay :: Underlay (v. t.) To raise or support by something laid under; as, to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing. See Underlay, n., 2..

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