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n.
To spread over with lather; as, to lather the face.
n.
Things or forms made by a turner, or in the lathe.
imp. & p. p.
of Lather
n.
One who turns; especially, one whose occupation is to form articles with a lathe.
n.
A small lathe for turning wooden pins.
n.
The art of fashioning solid bodies into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe.
n.
The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc.
n.
Work turned on a lathe; turnery.
n.
The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves.
n.
A turner's lathe; a throwe.
n.
Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various by means of a lathe and cutting tools.
n.
The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe.
n.
A poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of soapwort (Saponaria), in the bark of soap bark (Quillaia), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphous powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anaesthesia. Formerly called also struthiin, quillaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Lather
v. t.
To form in a lathe; to shape or fashion (anything) by applying a cutting tool to it while revolving; as, to turn the legs of stools or tables; to turn ivory or metal.
a.
Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe.
n.
The part of a foot lathe, or other machine, which is pressed or moved by the foot.
v. i.
To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as, ivory turns well.
n.
A turning lathe.
v. i.
To form lather, or a froth like lather; to accumulate foam from profuse sweating, as a horse.
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