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Fish :: Fish (v. t.) To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n..

Opercle :: Opercle (n.) Any one of the bony plates which support the gill covers of fishes; an opercular bone.

Dabber :: Dabber (n.) That with which one dabs; hence, a pad or other device used by printers, engravers, etc., as for dabbing type or engraved plates with ink..

Contemplator :: Contemplator (n.) One who contemplates.

Hypoplastron :: Hypoplastron (n.) The third lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; -- called also hyposternum.

Patine :: Patine (n.) A plate. See Paten.

Gauge :: Gauge (n.) Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge..

Metasternum :: Metasternum (n.) The ventral plate of the third or last segment of the thorax of insects.

Chaplet :: Chaplet (n.) A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mold..

Plate-gilled :: Plate-gilled (a.) Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks..

Groundsill :: Groundsill (n.) See Ground plate (a), under Ground.

Communism :: Communism (n.) A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all..

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo..

Plate :: Plate (n.) A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light..

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

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.

Gula :: Gula (n.) A plate which in most insects supports the submentum.

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

Setout :: Setout (n.) A display, as of plate, equipage, etc.; that which is displayed..

Biting In :: Biting in () The process of corroding or eating into metallic plates, by means of an acid. See Etch..

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