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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight)	6	0	Browse	Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones)	4	0	Browse	Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)

speculum is perforated like the Gregorian, but the rays converging from the surface of the mirror are reflected back by a small convex mirror in the axis of the telescope, and come to a focus at a point near the aperture in the speculum, where they form an inverted image, which is viewed by the eye-piece screwed into the tube behind the speculum. See telescope. Cas′si-mere. （Fabric.) A single-width men's woolen goods, twilled and oil-finished. Kerseymere is probably a corruption. Kersey is a local name for a coarse worsted cloth of Scotland and Ireland. Cas′si-nette. （Fabric.) A cloth made of a cotton warp and a weft of fine wool or wool and silk. Cast. Warped. Said of sprung timber. Casta-net. A clapping instrument, composed of two little saucer-shaped disks held in the hand and beaten with the middle finger, generally as an accompaniment to the dancing of the player. These were used by the virgins in the ancient hymns to Diana. They make a noise

Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)

Bobbinet.Chitarah. Bocasine.Cloth. Bocking.Coburg-cloth. Bombazine.Cog-ware. Bonten.Collar-check. Book-muslin.Coothay. Bootee.Cordillas. Boquin.Corduroy. Borders.Cossas. Borel.Cotillion. Cottonade.Holland. Crape.Huckaback. Crape-morette.Hum-hum. Crash.India-rubber cloth. Crepon.Ingrain. Crequillas.Jaconet. Crinoline.Jamdari. Cristale.Janus-cloth. Cut-velvet.Japanese silk. Damask.Jean. Damask-satin.Jemmy. Damassin.Kalmuck. De bege.Kennets. De laine.Keper. Demyostage.Kersey. Denim.Kerseymere. Diaper.Kompow. Diaphane.Lace (varieties, see lace). Dimity.Lapping. Doeskin.Lasting. Doily.Lawn. Domestic.Leno. Domett.Levantine. Dooriahs.Linen. Dorsel.Linsey. Dorsour.List. Dowlas.Lockram. Drab.Long-cloth. Drabbets.Loonghie. Drap daete.Lustring. Dreadnaught.Lutestring. Drill.Mail-net. Drugget.Marabout. Ducape.Marseilles. Duck.Marsella. Duffels.Match-cloth. Duroy.Matting. Duttees.Medley-cloth. Elastic-goods.Melton. Empress-cloth.Merino. Farandams

Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), K. (search)

f kerite. Kern. 1. (Printing.) The part of a letter which overhangs the shank. It occurs more frequently in italic than in Roman: jolly old fag embraces the kerned letters of an italic font. 2. (Milling.) A hand-mill for grain. See Quern. Ker′sey. （Fabric.) A probable corruption of Jersey, whence it came. A coarse ribbed cloth made from wool of long staple. Ker-sey-mere′. （Fabric.) A light woolen twilled goods with an oil finish, for men's wear. Named from Kersey, in Yorkshire, England. Cassimere. Ker-sey-nette′. （Fabric.) A thin woolen cloth. Cassinette. Ketch. （Vessel.) An almost obsolete form of two-masted vessel, carrying a tall, square-rigged main-mast forward, and a shorter fore-and-aft rigged mizzen abaft. Being a favorite form of mortar vessel, we frequently read of bomb-ketch in the wars of a past age. Ket′tle. A metallic vessel in which water or other liquid is boiled. In sugar-houses kettles are arranged

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