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Countercheck :: Countercheck (n.) Any force or device designed to restrain another restraining force; a check upon a check.

Die :: Die (n.) A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc..

Salve :: Salve (n.) To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as with an ointment, especially by some device, trick, or quibble; to gloss over..

Refuge :: Refuge (n.) An expedient to secure protection or defense; a device or contrivance.

Swatte :: Swather (n.) A device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.

Faller :: Faller (n.) A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks..

Muckworm :: Muckworm (n.) One who scrapes together money by mean labor and devices; a miser.

Flag :: Flag (n.) A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag..

Break :: Break (v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10..

Relay :: Relay (n.) In various forms of telegraphic apparatus, a magnet which receives the circuit current, and is caused by it to bring into into action the power of a local battery for performing the work of making the record; also, a similar device by which the current in one circuit is made to open or close another circuit in which a current is passing..

Antic :: Antic (n.) An odd imagery, device, or tracery; a fantastic figure..

Device :: Device (n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice..

Imprese :: Imprese (n.) A device. See Impresa.

Engine :: Engine (n.) Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.

Switched :: Switch (n.) A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.

Trunkwork :: Trunkwork (n.) Work or devices suitable to be concealed; a secret stratagem.

Notion :: Notion () An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack; as, Yankee notions..

Gimmor :: Gimmor (n.) A piece of mechanism; mechanical device or contrivance; a gimcrack.

Gate :: Gate (n.) A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc..

Bill Holder :: Bill holder () A device by means of which bills, etc., are held..

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