Its end, which carries a scribing point, marks the smoked paper on the rotating cylinder.
Usually an electromagnetic stylus is employed, in which a scribing point suddenly moves when the electric circuit is broken by a projectile.
If the surface be cylindrical, thin sheet mica attached to it, and smoked, gives excellent results, and offers but little resistance to all the scribing points employed.
Glazed paper is often employed when the velocity of the surface is slow, but when a high velocity of smoked surface is necessary, smoked glass offers far the least resistance to the movement of the scribing points.
A B, and it is obvious that those journals may be rested on parallel pieces P, P, and the centres marked by the scribing block on the faces E, F in the manner before described.
The edge A of the rule or of the level should be laid upon a surface plate, and a fine line drawn on the face of these plugs with a scribing block, the coincidence of the line l with these marked lines testing the truth of the work.
The first thing to do is to mark off the keyway by scribing lines on the surface of the shaft, indicating the location for the feather seat; and for this purpose nothing is better than the key seat rule shown in Fig.
A represents the stationary, and B the scribing or marking point of the compasses.
For marking upon one surface a line parallel to another surface, the scribingblock or surface gauge shown in Fig.
It may be of any length, but at one end it should be filed so as to leave a scribing point that will come close to the base circle or line, and have a short handle, as shown in Fig.
To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
Scribing iron, an iron-pointed instrument for scribing, or marking, casks and logs.
The try-square is also of great use in scribing lines across boards, Fig.
By this is meant the method by which the lay-out of one member is obtained directly from the other by laying (superposing) the latter on the former and marking or scribing the needed dimensions directly, instead of by measurement.
The dovetail joint is also made by first laying out and cutting the members having the pins, and then superposing this on the piece to be dovetailed, and scribing around the pins.
In scribing a line parallel with a given outline, one leg follows the given edge, or outline, and the point of the other, marks the desired line.
Straight on the glittering ice-field, by the caves of the lost Dordogne, Ung, a maker of pictures, fell to his scribing on bone Even to mammoth editions.
This is done by twisting a bit of wire round thescribing point and allowing it to project downwards.
The liquid is adjusted till its surface is in contact with the end of the scribing point, and the wire then projects into the liquid and forms an electrode of constant area of surface.
It can be done with the dividers by using care in scribing the centers.
In scribingwith the chisel, the edge is drawn along with one corner slightly raised and the flat side next the straight-edge, holding the tool either like a pencil or for deeper scoring as in Fig.
Compasses are often used for scribing a line parallel to another line or surface, whether regular or irregular, in places where the gauge cannot be used.
These points are your centers for scribing the long sides of the ellipse.
The dividers are used not only for scribing circles, but also for stepping and dividing spaces equally.
The handle, therefore, always serves as a guide for the blade in scribing work, because it lies flat down on the work.
Never saw out the scribing or marking line, either in cutting or in ripping.
The scribing point should be sharpened with a file, the point being filed to form a blade, which is at right angles to the bar, or parallel with the movable cheekpiece.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scribing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
