MACHINER
Ma*chin"er, n.
Defn: One who or operates a machine; a machinist. [R.]
MACHINERY
Ma*chin"er*y, n. Etym: [From Machine: cf. F. machinerie.]
1. Machines, in general, or collectively.
2. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch.
3. 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. The machinery, madam, is a term invented by the critics, to signify that part which the deities, angels, or demons, are made to act in a poem. Pope.
4. The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose. An indispensable part of the machinery of state. Macaulay. The delicate inflexional machinery of the Aryan languages. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).
MACHINING
Ma*chin"ing, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to the machinery of a poem; acting or used as a machine.[Obs.] Dryden.
MACHINIST
Ma*chin"ist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. machiniste.]