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ts. Bailey's machine is designed for imprinting successive numbers on railway-tickets and their coupons at one operation. It also partially separates the coupons from each other and from the ticket, so that they may be readily torn apart. Edmonson's prints the names of places on tickets, at the same time numbering them consecutively. The cards are fed singly to a horizontal table under a type-box containing the form, which is vertically reciprocated to receive ink from the rollers and toSee numbering-machine. Num′ber-print′--ing. The process whereby successive numbers are printed automatically on tickets, bank-notes, etc. Various machines have been invented for this purpose, prominent among which are Bramah's, Shaw's, Edmonson's, and Trouillet's. See numbering-machine. Called a numbering-machine or paging-machine. Nun-buoy. A buoy of a spindle shape, or formed of two cones joined at their bases. Nurling-tool and nurled head. Nurling. The indentations o