Definition of wire

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Wire (v. i.) To send a telegraphic message.

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Popper :: Popper (n.) A utensil for popping corn, usually a wire basket with a long handle..
Platinum :: Platinum (n.) A metallic element, intermediate in value between silver and gold, occurring native or alloyed with other metals, also as the platinum arsenide (sperrylite). It is heavy tin-white metal which is ductile and malleable, but very infusible, and characterized by its resistance to strong chemical reagents. It is used for crucibles, for stills for sulphuric acid, rarely for coin, and in the form of foil and wire for many purposes. Specific gravity 21.5. Atomic weight 194.3. Symbol Pt. Fo
Fescue :: Fescue (n.) A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read..
Twire :: Twire (n.) A twisted filament; a thread.
Puppet :: Puppet (n.) A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play.
Cittern :: Cittern (n.) An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum..
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..
Stylet :: Stylet (n.) A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape and prevent clogging..
Hairpin :: Hairpin (n.) A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women..
Pick :: Pick (v.) To open (a lock) as by a wire.
Riddle :: Riddle (n.) A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand..
Wire :: Wire (n.) A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire..
Zither :: Zither (n.) An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.].
Dulcimer :: Dulcimer (n.) An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer..
Cage :: Cage (n.) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes..
Agraffe :: Agraffe (n.) A hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is so held as to limit the vibration..
Wiredraw :: Wiredraw (v. t.) Hence, to draw by art or violence..
Snare :: Snare (n.) An instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion..
Wiredrawing :: Wiredrawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wiredra.
Brush :: Brush (n.) A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus..
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