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v. t.
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
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Either of the ends of the conducting circuit of an electrical apparatus, as an inductorium, dynamo, or electric motor, usually provided with binding screws for the attachment of wires by which a current may be conveyed into or from the machine; a pole.
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A piece of network; any fabric, made of cords, threads, wires, or the like, crossing one another with open spaces between.
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Work, especially openwork, formed of wires.
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The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence, secret influence or management, especially in politics; intrigue.
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To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.
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A system of wires or lines in the focus of a telescope or other instrument; a reticle.
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A line- or ribbon-shaped material (as wire, string, or bandaging) wound around an object; as, the windings (conducting wires) wound around the armature of an electric motor or generator.
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A perforated steel die through which wires or tubes are drawn to form them.
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Hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous way; as, to tap telegraph wires for the purpose of intercepting information; to tap the treasury.
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Aggregate length or distance in miles; esp., the sum of lengths of tracks or wires of a railroad company, telegraph company, etc.
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One who pulls the wires, as of a puppet; hence, one who operates by secret means; an intriguer.
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The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.
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An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted.
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A well-known musical instrument somewhat resembling the harpsichord, and consisting of a series of wires of graduated length, thickness, and tension, struck by hammers moved by keys.
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A fabric of threads, cords, or wires crossing each other at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus leaving spaces or meshes between them.
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One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.
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The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, or the whole of a system of telegraph wires under one management and name.
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An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.]
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A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends; especially (Surveying), a graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope; -- also called stadia, and stadia rod.
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