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Comb :: Comb (n.) A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser..

Pricking-up :: Pricking-up (n.) The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat.

Chichling Vetch :: Chichling vetch (n.) A leguminous plant (Lathyrus sativus), with broad flattened seeds which are sometimes used for food..

Vetchling :: Vetchling (n.) Any small leguminous plant of the genus Lathyrus, especially L. Nissolia..

Flathead :: Flathead (a.) Characterized by flatness of head, especially that produced by artificial means, as a certain tribe of American Indians..

Mandrel :: Mandrel (n.) The live spindle of a turning lathe; the revolving arbor of a circular saw. It is usually driven by a pulley.

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc..

Chuck :: Chuck (n.) A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon..

Live :: Live (a.) Imparting power; having motion; as, the live spindle of a lathe..

Lathy :: Lathy (a.) Like a lath; long and slender.

Saponin :: Saponin (n.) A poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of soapwort (Saponaria), in the bark of soap bark (Quillaia), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphous powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anaesthesia. Formerly called also struthiin, quillaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type..

Exsuccous :: Exsuccous (a.) Destitute of juice; dry; sapless. Latham.

Plathelminth :: Plathelminth (n.) One of the Platyelminthes.

Dead :: Dead (a.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle..

Lathe :: Lathe (n.) Formerly, a part or division of a county among the Anglo-Saxons. At present it consists of four or five hundreds, and is confined to the county of Kent..

Turnery :: Turnery (n.) The art of fashioning solid bodies into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe.

Aspalathus :: Aspalathus (n.) A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil.

Lathwork :: Lathwork (n.) Same as Lathing.

Laths :: Laths (pl. ) of Lat.

Automatical :: Automatical (a.) Pertaining to, or produced by, an automaton; of the nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; -- esp. applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or device itself; as, the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas lighting; an automatic engine or switch; an automatic mouse..

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