māchina ae, f, mhxanh/, a machine, engine: columnae machinā appositā: Torquet lapidem machina, H.: Trahunt machinae carinas, H.

—A military machine, warlike engine: oppidum machinis omnium generum expugnare, S.: in nostros fabricata muros, V.

—Fig., a device, contrivance, trick, artifice, stratagem: legem tamquam machinam comparari: omnibus machinis oppugnari.