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Mechanic
MECHAN'IC
MECHAN'ICAL, a. [L. mechanicus; Gr. a machine.]
1. Pertaining to machines, or to the art of constructing machines; pertaining to the art of making wares, goods, instruments, furniture, etc. We say, a man is employed in mechanical labor; he lives by mechanical occupation.
2. Constructed or performed by the rules or laws of mechanics. The work is not mechanical.
3. Skilled in the art of making machines; bred to manual labor.
4. Pertaining to artisans or mechanics; vulgar.
To make a god, a hero or a king,
Descend to a mechanic dialect.
5. Pertaining to the principles of mechanics, in philosophy;
as mechanical powers or forces; a mechanical principle.
6. Acting by physical power; as mechanical pressure.
The terms mechanical and chimical, are thus distinguished; those changes which bodies undergo without altering their constitution, that is, losing their identity, such as changes of place, of figure, etc. are mechanical; those which alter the constitution of bodies,making them different substances, as when flour, yeast and water unite to form bread, are chimical. In the one case, the changes relate to masses of matter, as the motions of the heavenly bodies, or the action of the wind on a ship under sail; in the other case, the changes occur between the particles of matter, as the action of heat in melting lead, or the union of sand and lime forming mortar. Most of what are usually called the mechanic arts, are partly mechanical, and partly chimical.
MECHAN'IC, n. A person whose occupation is to construct machines, or goods, wares, instruments, furniture, and the like.
1. One skilled in a mechanical occupation or art.
mechanic appears in definitions for these words:
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Acceleration Action Apprentice Apron-man Arbor Art Article Artificer Artisan Automatic Axis Balance Business Capacity Cast Center Central Cheek Cleavage Company Condensation Condense Conspiring Cotton-gin Craftsman Decomposition Dynamics Element Employment Engine Engineer Equilibrium Expend Faculty Felspar Fly Force Friction Fulcre Gin Handicraft Hieroglyph Immechanical Impracticability Improvement Inclined Ingenious Integrant Job Joiner Journey-work Journeyman Laborious Level Lever Liberal Lignum-vitae Machine Machinery Male Mechanic Mechanically Mechanicalness Mechanician Mechanics Mechanism Mechanist Momentum Motion Mystery Natural Nut Operate Operation Origination Plane Plumb Poison Power Powerful Productive Profession Projectile Pull Pulley Purchase Quadratrix Raise Resultant Rouse Runner Screw Secondary Shaken Shop Skill Skillful Smoothen Society Solution Spring Square Stage Statics Steam Strife Stuff Suspension Thrifty Thriving Tookpick Trade Trammel Trispast Tympanum Unmechanical Unskillful Upright Vibration Vocation Wedge Wheel Wright
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