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Ma*chine", v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Machined (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Machining.] To subject to the action of machinery; to
effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing
machine.

Ma*chin"er (?), n. One who or
operates a machine; a machinist. [R.]

Ma*chin"er*y (?), n. [From
Machine: cf. F. machinerie.] 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 a
catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the
crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse,
are effected.

The machinery, madam, is a term invented by the
critics, to signify that part which the deities, angels, or demons,
are made to act in a poem.

4. The means and appliances by which anything
is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system
of parts adapted to a purpose.


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