·add. ·- A plate prepared by a mechanical process, ·esp. a photomechanical process.
II. Process plate ·add. ·- A very slow photographic plate, giving good contrasts between high lights and shadows, used ·esp. for making lantern slides.
·noun A piece of money, usually silver money. II. Plate ·noun A roundel of silver or tinctured arge...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Money, silver, prize. He is in for the plate; he has won the KEAT, i.e. is infected with the venerea...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
In marine law, refers to jewels, plate, or treasure, for which freight is due. Thus, plate-ship is a...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A statement of events; a narrative. II. Process ·noun Any marked prominence or projecting par...
·- A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle. ...
·adj Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks. ...
·add. ·- A fogged plate. ...
·- A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket. ...
·add. ·- A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such p...
The face. To alter his dial plate; to disfigure his face. ...
Fetters. ...
An iron plate bolted to the stem of some vessels for the purpose of supporting the gammoning of the ...
Thick coverings or coatings for ships on the new principle, to render them impervious to shot and sh...
·add. ·- That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or he...
·add. ·- A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, ...
·add. ·- A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not sili...
·add. ·- The process of washing molten pig iron by adding iron oxide, proposed by I. Lowthian Bell o...
·add. ·- Any process in which advantage is taken of the fact that prepared bitumen is rendered insol...
·add. ·- A printing process depending on the effect of light on bichromatized gelatin. Paper coated ...
·add. ·- A process of separating the substances contained in pulverized ore or the like by depositin...
·add. ·- The process of removing moisture from the blast of an iron blast furnace by reducing its te...
·add. ·- A process of hardening the face of steel, as armor plates, invented by Hayward A. Harvey of...
·add. ·- A process practiced by Friedrich Krupp, Essen, Germany, for washing pig iron, differing fro...
·add. ·- A process by which copper matte is treated by passing through it a blast of air, to oxidize...
·add. ·- A process, now no longer used, invented by J. N. Niepce, a French chemist, in 1829. It depe...
·add. ·- A process of desilverizing argentiferous lead by repeated meltings and skimmings, which con...
·add. ·- A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successiv...
·add. ·- ·same·as Basic process, above. ...
·add. ·- A process of electric welding in which heat is developed by a large current passing through...
·add. ·- A method of sinking through water-bearing ground, in which the shaft is lined with tubbing ...
·add. ·- The process of attachment by garnishment. ...
·add. ·- The process of treating silver ores by grinding in pans or tubs with the addition of mercur...
·- A process for the recovery or regeneration of manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, b...
Incorporated 1670. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
The point within which iron-plated ships, under concentrated fire, may be damaged. ...
·add. ·- A certain process for producing upon articles of iron or steel an adherent coating of the m...
·- ·see Open-hearth process, ·etc., under <<Open>>. ...
·add. ·- A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toug...