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† menadry Obs.
(See quots.)
1570Dee Math. Pref. D j, Menadrie, is an Arte Mathematicall, which demonstrateth, how, aboue Natures vertue and power simple: Vertue and force may be multiplied: and so, to direct, to lift, to pull to, and to put or cast fro, any multiplied or simple, determined Vertue, Waight or Force: naturally not so directible or mouable. 1620–55I. Jones Stone-Heng (1725) 23 Menadry, or Art of ordering Engines for raising Weights. 1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 218 It is a Maxim as well in Menadry as War,..a true and equal Draught..raiseth up mighty Weights. |