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Degarnishment :: Degarnishment (n.) The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison..

Nargileh :: Nargileh (n.) An apparatus for smoking tobacco. It has a long flexible tube, and the smoke is drawn through water..

Swing :: Swing (n.) A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing; especially, an apparatus for recreation by swinging, commonly consisting of a rope, the two ends of which are attached overhead, as to the bough of a tree, a seat being placed in the loop at the bottom; also, any contrivance by which a similar motion is produced for amusement or exercise..

Appliance :: Appliance (n.) The thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances..

Lute :: Lute (n.) A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting..

Disinfector :: Disinfector (n.) One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants..

Fitting :: Fitting (n.) necessary fixtures or apparatus; as, the fittings of a church or study; gas fittings..

Bore :: Bore (v. t.) To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole..

Intestine :: Intestine (a.) That part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.

Aerator :: Aerator (n.) That which supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.

Lock :: Lock (n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc..

Card :: Card (n.) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard..

Lactometer :: Lactometer (n.) An instrument for estimating the purity or richness of milk, as a measuring glass, a specific gravity bulb, or other apparatus..

Eprouvette :: Eprouvette (n.) An apparatus for testing or proving the strength of gunpowder.

Meteorometer :: Meteorometer (n.) An apparatus which transmits automatically to a central station atmospheric changes as marked by the anemometer, barometer, thermometer, etc..

Ebonite :: Ebonite (n.) A hard, black variety of vulcanite. It may be cut and polished, and is used for many small articles, as combs and buttons, and for insulating material in electric apparatus..

Graith :: Graith (n.) Furniture; apparatus or accouterments for work, traveling, war, etc..

Defecator :: Defecator (n.) That which cleanses or purifies; esp., an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and sirups..

Haematachometer :: Haematachometer (n.) A form of apparatus (somewhat different from the hemadrometer) for measuring the velocity of the blood.

Camera Obscura :: Camera obscura () An apparatus in which the image of an external object or objects is, by means of lenses, thrown upon a sensitized plate or surface placed at the back of an extensible darkened box or chamber variously modified; -- commonly called simply the camera..

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