Designed to activate or move or regulate itself.
1 The instrument is called on to become self - acting , and necessarily acts unwisely.
2 The door is fitted with a powerful spring and a feather-touch self - acting lock.
3 A self - acting apparatus supplied the three travelers with air to breathe.
4 But this self - acting machinery follows not the soldier through his campaigns.
5 I had for some years been supplying foreign customers with self - acting machine tools.
6 The origin of this invention was somewhat similar to that of the self - acting mule.
7 Like so many other inventions, the idea of the self - acting mule was not new.
8 He admired the quality of my work, and the beauty of my self - acting machinery.
9 There is a self - acting retribution in our evil passions which never fails to operate.
10 As before said, the entire function of this most effective machine tool is self - acting .
11 She seems to be provided with an almost self - acting nature.
12 Let the representative be a tongue-bound deputy, and not a free, manly, self - acting agent.
13 The self - acting arrangement was eventually done away with, and hand-gear again became all but universal.
14 By another, (the 'self-acting,') the same effect is produced by the action of the seat.
15 A method of self - acting was afterwards added.
16 An expert banner man will drive tacks almost as rapidly as you could fire a self - acting revolver.
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