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Malleate :: Malleate (v. t.) To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.

Mouldboard :: Mouldboard (n.) A curved plate of iron (originally of wood) back of the share of a plow, which turns over the earth in plowing..

Tramroad :: Tramroad (n.) A road prepared for easy transit of trams or wagons, by forming the wheel tracks of smooth beams of wood, blocks of stone, or plates of iron..

Grapeshot :: Grapeshot (n.) A cluster, usually nine in number, of small iron balls, put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and bottom, with two rings, and a central connecting rod, in order to be used as a charge for a cannon. Formerly grapeshot were inclosed in canvas bags..

Plated :: Plated (imp. & p. p.) of Plat.

Electro-tint :: Electro-tint (n.) A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing..

Shin :: Shin (n.) A fish plate for rails.

Go :: Go (v. i.) To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to depart; -- in opposition to stay and come..

Nail :: Nail (n.) the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.

Dossil :: Dossil (n.) A roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines..

Breastplate :: Breastplate (n.) A strap that runs across a horse's breast.

Court-cupboard :: Court-cupboard (n.) A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions..

Negative :: Negative (n.) The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.

Hyperotreta :: Hyperotreta (n. pl.) An order of marsipobranchs, including the Myxine or hagfish and the genus Bdellostoma. They have barbels around the mouth, one tooth on the plate, and a communication between the nasal aperture and the throat. See Hagfish..

Tarsus :: Tarsus (n.) A plate of dense connective tissue or cartilage in the eyelid of man and many animals; -- called also tarsal cartilage, and tarsal plate..

Dabber :: Dabber (n.) That with which one dabs; hence, a pad or other device used by printers, engravers, etc., as for dabbing type or engraved plates with ink..

Metallotherapy :: Metallotherapy (n.) Treatment of disease by applying metallic plates to the surface of the body.

Compensator :: Compensator (n.) An iron plate or magnet placed near the compass on iron vessels to neutralize the effect of the ship's attraction on the needle.

Polytype :: Polytype (a.) Of or pertaining to polytypes; obtained by polytyping; as, a polytype plate..

Prosternum :: Prosternum (n.) The ventral plate of the prothorax of an insect.

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