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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
or cloths or paper, starch, etc. Hot-gild′ing. A name applied to amalgam gilding, in which the mercury is driven off by heat. Hot-house. 1. (Pottery.) A room where strong heat completes the drying of green ware, previously to placing in seggars and firing in a kiln. 2. (Horticulture.) A plant-house where a relatively high artificial temperature is maintained in order to facilitate vegetable growth. The botanic gardens of Pisa, Padna, and Bologna, established from 1544 to 1568, did not contain hot-houses. In the thirteenth century, however, Albertus Magnus, who was equally active and influential in promoting natural knowledge and the study of the Aristotelian philosophy, possessed a hot-house in the convent of the Dominicans at Cologne. This celebrated man, who had already fallen under the suspicion of sorcery on account of his speaking-machine, entertained the king of the Romans, Wilhelm of Holland, on the 6th of January, 1249, in a large space in the convent ga
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), O. (search)
stachean canal, you determine with it whether the tympanum be sound or perforated. Ouch. Formerly ouche; see King James's translation of the Bible, Exodus XXVIII. 11: — Engrave the two stones [onyx] with the names of the children of Israel; thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold. Also in Exodus XXXIX. 18: — And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two ouches and put them on the shoulders of the ephod, upon the forefront of it. — Bishop's Bible, 1568. The collet of a jewel. The part of a setting which grasps the stone. The bezel. An ornamental collar of gold. From the word ouche comes brooch, the modern name of the ornamental dress-clasp. This was formerly a clasp or button, and by the addition of a broach — a pin — (Fr. broche), received its present form. Out′burst-bank. （Hydraulic Engineering.) The middle portion, as to elevation, of a sea embankment. The lower portion is the footing, and has a base of 5
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
othed, and of different sizes, some with a cross. Swape (Asia Minor). Swan's-down. （Fabric.) a. A trimming in which the fine, soft feathers of the swan and other aquatic birds are set with the quill end in the meshes of the goods, so as to make the down as a nap upon the backing of fabric. b. A fine, soft, thick woolen cloth, made in imitation of swan's-down, a long nap being raised upon the surface. Swan-skin. （Fabric.) A kind of fine twilled flannel. Swape (Bessen, 1568). Swape. 1. The shaduf of the Arabs. See Shadoof. A bucket on the end of a line from a balanced pole which rests on a post. It has been employed for 40 centuries in Egypt; is represented on the temples and tombs of that country. The well-pole and oaken bucket are yet common in America. The picotah of Hindostan is a pole and bucket suspended from the end of a balanced stage, on which a man walks to give the oscillation. See Fig. 3701. In some form the swape is found in mos