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▪ I. machining, vbl. n.|məˈʃiːnɪŋ|
[f. machine v. + -ing1.]
The action of machine v. in various senses; also attrib.
1560Rolland Crt. Venus ii. 173 We Intend on vther machyning, In Musicall Airt, and diuers science. 1678Dryden Kind Keeper Prol. 8 Now our machining lumber will not sell, And you no longer care for Heaven or Hell. 1714Pope Let. to Blount 27 Aug., Wks. 1737 I. 140 The machining part of poetry. 1827H. Steuart Planter's G. (1828) 246 The Tree, being in readiness..for removal to its new site, the Machining of it (if I may be permitted the expression), is a work deserving of..particular attention. 1887G. R. Sims Mary Jane's Mem. 298 Many girls give up service..to work at shops and factories, and do machining. 1889Athenæum 5 Oct. 453/2 The mistake..of supposing that anything will do for the sixpenny public—old type, bad paper, and slovenly machining. 1890Nature 11 Sept., The sole machining..consisting in the formation of the bore and the drilling of the vent. 1891Econ. Jrnl. I. 638 The machining of trousers and waistcoats in London is performed exclusively by women.
▪ II. machining, ppl. a.|məˈʃiːnɪŋ|
[f. machine v. + -ing2.]
That machines; † appearing, as a god, from a ‘machine’; serving the function of a poetic ‘machine’.
1697Dryden æneid Ded. (a) 3 b, If there had not been more Machining Persons than Humane in his Poem. a1700― Ovid's Art of Love i. 120 The stage with rushes or with leaves they strew'd, No scenes in prospect, no machining god. |