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Fungia :: Fungia (n.) A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter..

Entoplastron :: Entoplastron (n.) The median plate of the plastron of turtles; -- called also entosternum.

Engraving :: Engraving (n.) The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper..

Speculate :: Speculate (v. i.) To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events..

Acierage :: Acierage (n.) The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.

Plate :: Plate (v. t.) To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense.

Unrivet :: Unrivet (v. t.) To take out, or loose, the rivets of; as, to unrivet boiler plates..

Seam :: Seam (n.) Hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, etc..

Mental :: Mental (n.) A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.

Laminate :: Laminate (a.) Consisting of, or covered with, laminae, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated..

Breastplate :: Breastplate (n.) A strap that runs across a horse's breast.

Slide :: Slide (n.) A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope..

Ground :: Ground (v. t.) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching (see Ground, n., 5); or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament..

Print :: Print (v. t.) To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book..

Plate :: Plate (v. t.) To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminae..

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

Sternsman :: Sternpost (n.) A straight piece of timber, or an iron bar or beam, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel..

Hyopastron :: Hyopastron (n.) The second lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; -- called also hyosternum.

Ridgeplate :: Ridgeplate (n.) See Ridgepole.

Dial :: Dial (n.) An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. The style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical..

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