See also:ARMATURE (from See also:Lat. armatura, See also:armour) , a covering for See also:defence. In See also:zoology the word is used of the bony See also:- SHELL
- SHELL (O. Eng. scell, scyll, cf. Du. sceel, shell, Goth. skalja, tile; the word means originally a thin flake,. cf. Swed. skalja, to peel off; it is allied to " scale " and " skill," from a root meaning to cleave, divide, separate)
shell of the See also:armadillo. In See also:architecture it is applied to the See also:iron stays by which the See also:lead See also:lights are secured in windows. (See See also:STANCHION and See also:SADDLE: Saddle-Bars.) In See also:magnetism Dr See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
Gilbert applied the See also:term to the piece of soft iron with which he " armed " or capped the lodestone in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to increase its See also:power. It is also used for the " keeper " or piece of iron which is placed across the poles of a See also:horse-See also:shoe magnet, and held in See also:place by magnetic attraction, in order to See also:complete the magnetic See also:circuit and preserve the magnetism of the See also:steel; and hence, in See also:dynamo-electric machinery, for the portion which is attracted by the electromagnet, as the moving See also:part of an electric motor, or, by See also:extension, the moving part of a dynamo (q.v.).
End of Article: ARMATURE (from Lat. armatura, armour)
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