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A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set up their machinery.

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  • WHOSESOEVER
    The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
  • MECHANICS
    That science, or branch of applied mathematics, which treats of the action of forces on bodies. Note: That part of mechanics which considers the action of forces in producing rest or equilibrium is called statics; that which relates to such action
  • MECHANICIAN
    One skilled in the theory or construction of machines; a machinist. Boyle.
  • OCCUPATION
    1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
  • MILLSTONE
    One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance. No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge. Deut. xxiv. 6. Note: The cellular siliceous rock called buhrstone is usually employed for millstones; also, some
  • MECHANICAL
    1. Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter, as distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical
  • WHOSE
    The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
  • BUILDING
    1. The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing. Hence it is that the building of our Sion rises no faster. Bp. Hall. 2. The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture. The execution of works of architecture
  • MECHANICALLY
    In a mechanical manner.
  • BUILDER
    One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason. In the practice of civil architecture, the builder comes between the architect who designs the work and the artisans who execute it. Eng. Cyc.
  • MECHANICO-CHEMICAL
    Pertaining to, connected with, or dependent upon, both mechanics and chemistry; -- said especially of those sciences which treat of such phenomena as seem to depend on the laws both of mechanics and chemistry, as electricity and magnetism.
  • MECHANIC
    1. Having to do woth the application of the laws of motion in the art of constructing or making things; of or pertaining to mechanics; mechanical; as, the mechanic arts. "These mechanic philosophers." Ray. Mechanic slaves, With greasy
  • BUILD
    1. To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building. 2. To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one's self or one's hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others.
  • MECHANICALIZE
    To cause to become mechanical.
  • MACHINERY
    1. Machines, in general, or collectively. 2. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch. 3. The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to
  • MECHANICALNESS
    The state or quality of being mechanical.
  • THEIR
    The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
  • TELEMECHANIC
    Designating, or pert. to, any device for operating mechanisms at a distance. --Tel`e*mech"a*nism , n.
  • SHIPBUILDER
    A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
  • OUTBUILD
    To exceed in building, or in durability of building.
  • OVERBUILD
    1. To build over. Milton. 2. To build too much; to build beyond the demand.
  • UNDERBUILDER
    A subordinate or assistant builder. An underbuilder in the house of God. Jer. Taylor.
  • REBUILDER
    One who rebuilds. Bp. Bull.
  • REBUILD
    To build again, as something which has been demolished; to construct anew; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city.
  • AEROMECHANIC
    A mechanic or mechanician expert in the art and practice of aƫronautics.
  • UNBUILD
    To demolish; to raze. "To unbuild the city." Shak.
  • BURR MILLSTONE
    See BUHRSTONE
  • AEROMECHANIC; AEROMECHANICAL
    Of or pert. to aƫromechanics.
  • INOCCUPATION
    Want of occupation.

 

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