a small and mean bed; a bed of straw.-same as palette.-a wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. it is oval, round, and of other forms.-a potter's wheel.-an instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.-a tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.-a board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.-a click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.-one of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.-one of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel.-in the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.-one of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the teredo. see illust. of teredo.-a cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by surgeons.