- Automatically operating devices - Factory equipment - Mechanical apparatus - Working parts - Machines, in general, or collectively. - The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument;
as, the machinery of a watch. - The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic
or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an
extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of
a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected.