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Machine
MACHINE, n. [L. machina.] An artificial work, simple or complicated, that serves to apply or regulate moving power, or to produce motion, so as to save time or force. The simple machines are the six mechanical powers, viz.; the lever, the pulley, the axis and wheel,the wedge, the screw, and the inclined plane. Complicated machines are such as combine two or more of these powers for the production of motion or force.
1. An engine; an instrument of force.
With inward arms the dire machine they load.
2. Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced into a poem to perform some exploit.
machine appears in definitions for these words:
Aerostat Aerostation Air-pump Android Anemometer Anemoscope Arbor Arktizite Artillery Automation Ballistics Beauty Bellows Bob Bolter Bolting-mill Bow Brake Calender Camel Cameo Carding-machine Cheek Clock Clock-work Coal-work Coalery Coin Cometarium Conductor Construction Cotton-gin Cotton-machine Cotton-mill Cradle Crane Crows-foot Cumbersome Devise Dolphin Drag Draught Drum Engine Epic Facilitate Filatory Fire-escape Fish Flier Fly Georama Gibbet Gimmal Gimmer Gin Go Guillotin Heliotrope Horology Horse Hydrant Hydraulics I Ingenious Ingenuity Inhaler Instrument Invent Jenny Jigger Knack Lantern Log Loom Machinal Machine Machinery Machining Machinist Magic Mail Manufacture Matter Mechanic Mechanics Mechanism Mechanist Midshipman Mill Motion Move Movement Nicely Ombrometer Opera Operation Orgues Orrery Pattern Pegm Piston Plan Planetarium Play Poke-weed Polyspast Pontoon Press Profit Pulley Pulp Pyrotic Raise Reel Regulator Riddle Simple Simplicity Skillfully Slider Something Spin Spinning-jenny Stock Stuff Sugar-mill Tackle Tactics Telegraph Transplanter Treddle Trispast Tromp Truss Usefulness Van Ventilator Watch Water-bellows Water-clock Water-mill Water-work Weighing-machine Well-drain Wheel Whirl Whirling-table Windlass Winnow Work
Aerostat Aerostation Air-pump Android Anemometer Anemoscope Arbor Arktizite Artillery Automation Ballistics Beauty Bellows Bob Bolter Bolting-mill Bow Brake Calender Camel Cameo Carding-machine Cheek Clock Clock-work Coal-work Coalery Coin Cometarium Conductor Construction Cotton-gin Cotton-machine Cotton-mill Cradle Crane Crows-foot Cumbersome Devise Dolphin Drag Draught Drum Engine Epic Facilitate Filatory Fire-escape Fish Flier Fly Georama Gibbet Gimmal Gimmer Gin Go Guillotin Heliotrope Horology Horse Hydrant Hydraulics I Ingenious Ingenuity Inhaler Instrument Invent Jenny Jigger Knack Lantern Log Loom Machinal Machine Machinery Machining Machinist Magic Mail Manufacture Matter Mechanic Mechanics Mechanism Mechanist Midshipman Mill Motion Move Movement Nicely Ombrometer Opera Operation Orgues Orrery Pattern Pegm Piston Plan Planetarium Play Poke-weed Polyspast Pontoon Press Profit Pulley Pulp Pyrotic Raise Reel Regulator Riddle Simple Simplicity Skillfully Slider Something Spin Spinning-jenny Stock Stuff Sugar-mill Tackle Tactics Telegraph Transplanter Treddle Trispast Tromp Truss Usefulness Van Ventilator Watch Water-bellows Water-clock Water-mill Water-work Weighing-machine Well-drain Wheel Whirl Whirling-table Windlass Winnow Work
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