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n. A cavity which leads into the stomach, as in birds. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. batrachomyomachi`a; ba`trachos frog + my^s mouse + ma`chh battle. ] The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship. [ 1913 Webster ]

A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a common thorny tropical American tree (Pithecellobium dulce) having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum.
Syn. -- manila tamarind, huamachil, wild tamarind. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; centaur + &unr_; battle. ] (Ancient Art) A fight in which centaurs take part, -- a common theme for relief sculpture, as in the Parthenon metopes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Physics) a particle accelerator in which two separate beams of particles (usually of opposite charge) are circulated in opposite directions and directed so as to collide head on; -- called also colliding-beam accelerator and collider. This technique allows the production of collisions of higher energy than would be possible with a single beam produced by the same device.
Syn. -- particle collider; colliding-beam accelerator; collider. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, dog + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; bear + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; fight. ] Bear baiting with a dog. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'epi`machos equipped for battle; 'epi` for + ma`chh battle. ] (Zoöl.) A genus of highly ornate and brilliantly colored birds of Australia, allied to the birds of Paradise. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Shortened form of telefax, from tele- and facsimile. ] A device which is designed to transmit and receive images by the facsimile{ 2 } process. Such a device may also be able to perform other functions, such as scanning an image or copying an image; a telefax device. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. gigantomachia, fr. Gr. &unr_;; &unr_;, &unr_;, giant + &unr_; battle: cf. F. gigantomachie. ] A war of giants; especially, the fabulous war of the giants against heaven.

. (Aëronautics) A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Elec.) A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Haema- + Gr. chrw^ma color. ] (Physiol. Chem.) Hematin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. haemachates; Gr. a"i^ma blood + 'acha`ths agate.] (Min.) A species of agate, sprinkled with spots of red jasper. [1913 Webster]

n. Same as Haemachrome. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a lofty spirit; haughty. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A common thorny tropical American tree (Pithecellobium dulce) having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum.
Syn. -- manila tamarind, camachile, wild tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a war against images; e'ikw`n an image + &unr_; fight. ] Hostility to images as objects of worship. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Logomachy. ] One who contends about words. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; lo`gos word + &unr_; fight, battle, contest: cf. F. logomachie. ] 1. Contention in words merely, or a contention about words; a war of words. [ 1913 Webster ]

The discussion concerning the meaning of the word “justification” . . . has largely been a mere logomachy. L. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A game of word making. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ F. lumachelle, It. lumachella, fr. lamachella a little snail, dim. of lumaca a snail, fr. L. limax, -acis. ] (Min.) A grayish brown limestone, containing fossil shells, which reflect a beautiful play of colors. It is also called fire marble, from its fiery reflections. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a cosmopolitan genus of plants, including some of the loosestrifes, found in damp or swampy terrain having usually yellow flowers; they are inclined to be invasive.
Syn. -- genus Lysimachia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A genus of wildflowers of Western North America.
Syn. -- genus Machaeranthera. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ ‖‖ } n. [ NL., fr. Gr. ma`chaira dagger + 'odoy`s tooth. ] (Paleon.) A genus of extinct mammals allied to the cats, and having in the upper jaw canine teeth of remarkable size and strength; -- hence called saber-toothed tigers. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes. J. Stevens.
Syn. -- matchet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Machiavel (also called Machiavelli), an Italian writer, secretary and historiographer to the republic of Florence. ] Of or pertaining to Machiavelli, or to his supposed principles for conduct of government, as enunciated in his tract The Prince; politically cunning; characterized by duplicity, political expediency, unscrupulous cunning, or bad faith; crafty. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

, n. One who adopts the principles of Machiavelli; a cunning and unprincipled politician. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. F. machiavélisme; It. machiavellismo. ] The supposed principles of Machiavelli, or practice in conformity to them; political artifice, intended to favor arbitrary power. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. machicolatus, p. p. of machicolare, machicollare. See Machicolation. ] Having machicolations. “Machicolated turrets.” C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. LL. machicolamentum, machacolladura, F. mâchicolis, mâchecoulis; perh. fr. F. mèche match, combustible matter + OF. coulis, couleis, flowing, fr. OF. & F. couler to flow. Cf. Match for making fire, and Cullis. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Mil. Arch.) An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, for shooting or dropping missiles upon assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of discharging missiles or pouring burning or melted substances upon assailants through such apertures. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. mâchicoulis. ] (Mil. Arch.) Same as Machicolation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A wingless insect living in dark moist places, as under tree trunks; they make erratic leaps when disturbed; called also jumping bristletail.
Syn. -- jumping bristletail. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A natural family of insects including the jumping bristletails. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. machinalis: cf. F. machinal. ] Of or pertaining to machines. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Machinated p. pr. & vb. n. Machinating ] [ L. machinatus, p. p. of machinari to devise, plot. See Machine. ] To plan; to contrive; esp., to form a scheme with the purpose of doing harm; to contrive artfully; to plot. “How long will you machinate!” Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To contrive, as a plot; to plot; as, to machinate evil. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. machinatio: cf. F. machination. ] 1. The act of machinating. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot. [ 1913 Webster ]

Devilish machinations come to naught. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

His ingenious machinations had failed. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer. Glanvill. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. machina machine, engine, device, trick, Gr. mhchanh`, from mh^chos means, expedient. Cf. Mechanic. ] 1. In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term machine is most commonly applied to such pieces of mechanism as are used in the industrial arts, for mechanically shaping, dressing, and combining materials for various purposes, as in the manufacture of cloth, etc. Where the effect is chemical, or other than mechanical, the contrivance is usually denominated an apparatus or device, not a machine; as, a bleaching apparatus. Many large, powerful, or specially important pieces of mechanism are called engines; as, a steam engine, fire engine, graduating engine, etc. Although there is no well-settled distinction between the terms engine and machine among practical men, there is a tendency to restrict the application of the former to contrivances in which the operating part is not distinct from the motor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle. Dryden. Southey. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A person who acts mechanically or at the will of another. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

The whole machine of government ought not to bear upon the people with a weight so heavy and oppressive. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends; the Tammany machine. [ Political Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Elementary machine, a name sometimes given to one of the simple mechanical powers. See under Mechanical. --
Infernal machine. See under Infernal. --
Machine gun.See under Gun. --
Machine screw, a screw or bolt adapted for screwing into metal, in distinction from one which is designed especially to be screwed into wood. --
Machine shop, a workshop where machines are made, or where metal is shaped by cutting, filing, turning, etc. --
Machine tool, a machine for cutting or shaping wood, metal, etc., by means of a tool; especially, a machine, as a lathe, planer, drilling machine, etc., designed for a more or less general use in a machine shop, in distinction from a machine for producing a special article as in manufacturing. --
Machine twist, silken thread especially adapted for use in a sewing machine. --
Machine work, work done by a machine, in contradistinction to that done by hand labor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Machined p. pr. & vb. n. Machining. ] To subject to the action of machinery; to make, cut, shape, or modify with a machine; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A threaded hexagonal or square-headed bolt with a nut; it is tightened with a wrench and used to connect metal parts. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Computers) Same as machine language. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. same as automated.
Syn. -- automated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A fully automatic rapid-firing rifle, which continues to fire bullets repeatedly as long as the trigger is depressed; lighter versions may be carried in the hands, and heavier versions may be mounted on a tripod, vehicle, or other mount. The lighweight versions are sometimes called a submachine gun. [ PJC ]

a. Occurring in rapid succession, like the firing of a machine gun; as, Tom was a persuasive speaker, with a smooth deep voice, polysyllabic vocabulary, and a machine-gun articulation that overwhelmed listeners.
Syn. -- rapid-fire. [ PJC ]

n. A soldier who operates a machine gun. [ PJC ]

n. (Computers) a set of instructions{ 3 } in a binary form that can be executed directly by the CPU of a computer without translation by a computer program.
Syn. -- machine code, binary code. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. behaving in an unthinking manner, like the functioning of a machine; as, machine-like fools.
Syn. -- automatic, automaton-like, automatonlike, machinelike, robotlike. [ WordNet 1.5 ]