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Article :: Article (n.) To bind by articles of covenant or stipulation; as, to article an apprentice to a mechanic..

Trade :: Trade (v.) The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician..

Tetanomotor :: Tetanomotor (n.) An instrument from tetanizing a muscle by irritating its nerve by successive mechanical shocks.

Mechanism :: Mechanism (n.) Mechanical operation or action.

Tinker :: Tinker (n.) One skilled in a variety of small mechanical work.

Electro-motion :: Electro-motion (n.) The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.

Mechanicalize :: Mechanicalize (v. t.) To cause to become mechanical.

Iatromathematician :: Iatromathematician (n.) One of a school of physicians in Italy, about the middle of the 17th century, who tried to apply the laws of mechanics and mathematics to the human body, and hence were eager student of anatomy; -- opposed to the iatrochemists..

Disintegrate :: Disintegrate (v. t.) To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences..

Leverage :: Leverage (n.) The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever.

Charcoal :: Charcoal (v. t.) Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes..

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

Implemental :: Implemental (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, implements or their use; mechanical..

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..

Hydrodynamics :: Hydrodynamics (n.) That branch of the science of mechanics which relates to fluids, or, as usually limited, which treats of the laws of motion and action of nonelastic fluids, whether as investigated mathematically, or by observation and experiment; the principles of dynamics, as applied to water and other fluids..

Alarm :: Alarm (n.) A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum..

Jacquard :: "Jacquard (a.) Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834..

Shop :: Shop (n.) A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop..

Phonograph :: Phonograph (n.) An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration

Artificer :: Artificer (n.) A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory..

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