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Machinery
MACHINERY, n. A complicated work, or combination of mechanical powers in a work, designed to increase, regulate or apply motion and force; as the machinery of a watch or other chronometer.
1. Machines in general. The machinery of a cotton-mill is often moved by a single wheel.
2. In epic and dramatic poetry, superhuman beings introduced by the poet to solve difficulty, or perform some exploit which exceeds human power; or the word may signify the agency of such beings, as supposed deities, angels, demons and the like.
Nee Deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus Incidit.
A deity is not to be introduced,unless a difficulty occurs that requires the intervention of a god.
The machinery of Milton's Paradise Lost, consists of numerous superhuman personages. Pope's Rape of the Lock is rendered very interesting by the machinery of sylphs.
machinery appears in definitions for these words:
Clock-work Coal-work Coalery Cotton-mill Drum Epic Facilitate Gimmal Gimmer Invent Machinery Machining Manufacture Midshipman Mill Operation Pontoon Profit Spin Usefulness Watch Water-mill Well-drain
Clock-work Coal-work Coalery Cotton-mill Drum Epic Facilitate Gimmal Gimmer Invent Machinery Machining Manufacture Midshipman Mill Operation Pontoon Profit Spin Usefulness Watch Water-mill Well-drain
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