This section is from the book "Carpentry for Boys", by J. S. Zerbe. Also available from Amazon: Carpentry for Boys.
Kit. A working outfit; a collection of tools or implements.
Level. A tool designed to indicate horizontal or vertical surfaces.
Liberal. Not narrow or contracted.
Lobe. Any projection, especially of a rounded form; the projecting part of a cam-wheel.
Longitudinal. In the direction of the length; running lengthwise.
Lubrication. The system of affording oiling means to a machine or to any article.
Mandrel. The live spindle of a lathe; the revolving arbor of a circular saw.
Mansard. A type of roof structure with two pitches, one, the lower, being very steep, and the other very flat pitch.
Manual. Of or pertaining to the hand; done or made by hand.
Marginal. The border or edge of an object.
Marking gage. A bar on which is placed a series of points, usually equidistant from each other.
Matching. Placing tongue in one member and a corresponding groove in another member, so that they will join each other perfectly.
Mediæval. Of or relating to the Middle Ages.
Miter-box. A tool for the purpose of holding a saw true at any desired adjustable angle.
Miter-square. A tool which provides adjustment at any desired angle.
Mullion. A slender bar or pier which forms the vertical division between the lights of windows, screens, etc.; also, indoors, the main uprights are stiles, and the intermediate uprights are mullions.
Obliterated. Erased or blotted out.
Obtuse. Not pointed; bent.
Orbit. The path made by a heavenly body in its travel around another body.
Ordinate. The distance of any point in a curve or a straight line, measured on a line called the axis of ordinates, or on a line parallel to it from another line, at right angles thereto, called the axis of abscissas.
Ornamentation. To embellish; to improve in appearance.
Oscillate. To swing like a pendulum.
Overhang. In a general sense that which projects out.
Paneling. A sunken compartment or portion with raised margins, molded or otherwise, as indoors, ceilings wainscoting, etc.
Parallelogram. A right-lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel and, consequently, equal.
 
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