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Rounce :: Rounce (n.) The handle by which the bed of a hand press, holding the form of type, etc., is run in under the platen and out again; -- sometimes applied to the whole apparatus by which the form is moved under the platen..

Negative :: Negative (n.) The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.

Nasal :: Nasal (n.) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc..

Tassel :: Tassel (n.) A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers; -- rarely used in the United States..

Lithotype :: Lithotype (n.) A kind of stereotype plate made by lithotypy; also, that which in printed from it. See Lithotypy..

Billboard :: Billboard (n.) A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on..

Aptychus :: Aptychus (n.) A shelly plate found in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. Some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula..

Aplacophora :: Aplacophora (n. pl.) A division of Amphineura in which the body is naked or covered with slender spines or setae, but is without shelly plates..

Ephod :: Ephod (n.) A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front..

Tripestone :: Tripestone (n.) A variety of anhydrite composed of contorted plates fancied to resemble pieces of tripe.

Now :: Now (adv.) At a time contemporaneous with something spoken of or contemplated; at a particular time referred to.

Splint :: Splint (v. t.) One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below..

Lamp :: Lamp (n.) A thin plate or lamina.

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

Plate :: Plate (n.) Metallic armor composed of broad pieces.

Bannock :: Bannock (n.) A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England..

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

Tablature :: Tablature (n.) Division into plates or tables with intervening spaces; as, the tablature of the cranial bones..

Slate :: Slate (v. t.) An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist.

Vane :: Vane (n.) A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely..

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