Macaulay.Mach"i*na`tor (?), n. [L.] One who
machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful
schemer. Glanvill. Sir W. Scott.
Ma*chine" (m&adot;*shēn"), n.
[F., fr. L. machina machine, engine, device, trick, Gr. &?;,
from &?; means, expedient. Cf. Mechanic.] 1.
In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their
relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and
motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a
lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot,
etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of
a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as
wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting
framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive
force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and
transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired
mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of
electricity by an electrical machine.
&fist; The term machine is most commonly applied to such
pieces of mechanism as are used in the industrial arts, for
mechanically shaping, dressing, and combining materials for various
purposes, as in the manufacture of cloth, etc.
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