• fabrile operations

IV. By FABRILE OPERATIONS, (Smith, Carpenter, Mason, &c.) are meant all such kind of works as do primarily concern our Houses or Utensils,* whether for necessity, or ornament: to which may be adjoyn∣ed those Operations which concern the making of Earthen ware, styled FIGULATORY, Potter. These are distinguishable into such as denote

• Seperating of some thin parts from the surface of a body by rubbing with an edge: or breaking the body it self into minute parts by percus∣sion with some obtuse body.
  • SHAVING, scraping, raze, razour.
  • CONTUSION, bruising, pounding, stamping, braying, morter, pestle,
• Dividing from a body some small parts; either ‖ by affriction upon a stone, or with an iron instrument.
  • GRINDING, attrition, Grist, Querne, Mill.
  • FILING, Raspe.
• Dividing the parts of a body, by cutting it, either ‖ in roundish cavities, or in oblong scissures.
  • BORING, perforate, foraminate, pierce, Bodkin, Dril, Awle, Gimlet, Wimble, Trepann, Awgre.
  • SAWING, Saw, whipsaw, &c.

Vniting either of metalline or other bodies by some third body adhering.

• SODERING, Cement, luting.
• GLUING, cementing, glutinous, conglutinate

Shaping of bodies into particular figures; either by

• Hammering, or melting.
  • FORGING.
  • CASTING, melt, founding, fusile, molde.
• Cutting, either ‖ a solid and bulky, or a flat figure.
  • CARVING, Sculpture.
  • GRAVING, ingrave, etching.
• Compressing of a soft body; or circumagitating either a soft: or hard body.
  • KNEADING, moulding, plastic.
  • TURNING, Lath.

Adorning the surface of the body; either by ‖ variety of colours: or ad∣ding an external lustre to it.

• PAINTING, limn, draw, enamel, fucus, pensil.
• VARNISHING, size.