Simply touching a prayer wheel is said to bring great purification to negative karmas and obscurations.

Chevreul was perhaps the most important influence on artists at the time ; his great contribution was producing a color wheel of primary and intermediary hues.

The great wheel is an example of this type, where the fiber is held in the left hand and the wheel slowly turned with the right.

Numerous types of spinning wheels exist, including the great wheel also known as walking wheel or wool wheel for rapid long draw spinning of woolen-spun yarns ; the flax wheel, which is a double-drive wheel used with a distaff for spinning linen ; saxony and upright wheels, all-purpose treadle driven wheels used to spin worsted-spun yarns ; and the charkha, native to Asia.

The charkha works similarly to the great wheel, with a drive wheel being turned by hand, while the yarn is spun off the tip of the spindle.

The floor charkha and the great wheel closely resemble each other.

The great wheel was one of the earlier types of spinning wheel.

The great wheel is usually used to spin wool, and can only be used with fiber preparations that are suited to long-draw spinning.

Spinning wool on a great wheel at a demonstration in the Conner Prairie living history museum loom house

To begin spinning on a great wheel, first a leader ( a length of waste yarn ) is tied onto the base of the spindle and spiraled up to the tip.

He performed a Yagnya with such great devotional fervour that Lord Narayan was pleased to bless him with Sudarshana Chakra ( Sudarshana meaning " good looking ") and which manifested as a wheel of prosperity, peace and security to his kingdom.

There is at present two blacksmith shops, a saddler's shop and a store in the place -- a tailor, a wheel wright, and a shoemaker are much wanted, and would meet with great encouragement.

The breaking wheel was also known as a great dishonor, and appeared in several expressions as such.

The original windshaft, wallower, upright shaft and great spur wheel are made of cast iron, as are the tooth ring of the wooden brakewheel with its timber clasp arm construction and wooden brake, all installed in the 1930s.

Strong high tension spokes and a strong rim wheel rim is used to prevent the wheel from deforming under the great stresses exerted on it by jumping.

On June 9, 1893, the wheel was primed for a test run with great anticipation and no little anxiety.

`` His address '', Walter added, `` is that great foundling home, the American Express.

Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!

It is not good, Mr. Waddell: you will do him great harm ''.

-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.

Idje, here '', and he nodded at the man, `` is said to have great odor.

It is a great spectacle.

So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.

It is this curious blend of rugged individualism and public service which accounts for the great appeal of the mythological detective.

We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.

Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.

( B ) A message runs too great a risk of being distorted if it is to be relayed more than about six consecutive times.

Since the difficulty of drawing the net is great, we will merely discuss it.

He terms this early enthusiasm `` Romantic Christianity '' and concludes that its similarity to democratic beliefs of that day is so great that `` the doctrine of liberty seems but a secular version of its counterpart in evangelical Protestantism ''.

This is important to understanding the position that doctrinaire liberals found themselves in after World War 2, and our great democratic victory that brought no peace.

`` My doctors assure me that this increased percentage of risk is not great ''.

The making of distinctions, like the perception of the great distinctions made, is an inordinately difficult business.

Their great error is to mingle the responses typical of each of the three types of change.

Moral dread is seen as the other face of desire, and here psychoanalysis delivers to the writer a magnificent irony and a moral problem of great complexity.

The discrepancy between what we commonly profess and what we practice or tolerate is great, and it does not escape the notice of others.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

Growing out of this concern is the realization that all people of the Free World have a great stake in the progress, in freedom, of the uncommitted and newly emerging nations.

It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.

Atë, Greek for ' ruin, folly, delusion ', is the action performed by the hero, usually because of his / her hubris, or great pride, that leads to his / her death or downfall.

"), where great ingenuity may be exercised in narrating the events of the crime, usually a homicide, and of the subsequent investigation in such a manner as to conceal the identity of the criminal from the reader until the end of the book, when the method and culprit are revealed.

In a rugby union kick-off, or drop out, the kicker usually aims to kick the ball high but not a great distance, and so usually strikes the ball after it has started to bounce off the ground, so the contact is made close to the bottom of the ball.

The great flood of the main Nile usually occurred in Egypt during August, September, and October, but it sometimes began as early as June at Aswan and often did not completely wane until January.

An explosive material, also called an explosive, is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.

While it began with the last common ancestor of all life, the topic usually only covers the evolutionary history of primates, in particular the genus Homo, and the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of hominids ( or " great apes ").

' These day-dreams are cathected with a large amount of interest ; they are carefully cherished by the subject and usually concealed with a great deal of sensitivity ... such phantasies may be unconscious just as well as conscious '.

; Parallel Bars: Men perform on two bars slightly further than a shoulder's width apart and usually 1. 75m high while executing a series of swings, balances, and releases that require great strength and coordination.

Unlike most lizards, geckos are usually nocturnal and are great climbers.

In contrast to the " effeminate " view of the central character that usually accompanied a female casting, she described her character as " manly and resolute, but nonetheless thoughtful ... thinks before he acts, a trait indicative of great strength and great spiritual power ".

The abandonment of this northern territory is now usually placed in the late 2nd c. BC, around the time of the first Germanic incursions into the Roman world, when the Tigurini and Toygenoi / Toutonoi are mentioned as participants in the great raids.

Atë, ancient Greek for " ruin, folly, delusion ," is the action performed by the hero or heroine, usually because of his or her hubris, or great pride, that leads to his or her death or downfall.

Known in the Middle East by various names, including the khamsin, this dry, sirocco-style wind is usually accompanied by great dust clouds.

Peel's Radio 1 shows were notable for the regular " Peel sessions ", which usually consisted of four songs recorded by an artist live in the BBC's studios, and which often provided the first major national coverage to bands that later would achieve great fame.

Double knitting can produce two separate knitted fabrics simultaneously, e. g., two socks ; however, the two fabrics are usually integrated into one, giving it great warmth and excellent drape.

In the game, a natural 1 usually is great success with added bonuses and a natural 20 means a complete failure.

This is of great importance in accurate applications, such as GPS, but in common usage, where high accuracy is not required, the reference ellipsoid is not usually stated.

Syntactic non-standard analysis requires a great deal of care in applying the principle of set formation ( formally known as the axiom of comprehension ) which mathematicians usually take for granted.

The role of the hero was usually written for the castrato voice ; castrati such as Farinelli and Senesino, as well as female sopranos such as Faustina Bordoni, became in great demand throughout Europe as opera seria ruled the stage in every country except France.

A phobia ( from the, Phóbos, meaning " fear " or " morbid fear ") is, when used in the context of clinical psychology, a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation in which the sufferer commits to great lengths in avoiding, typically disproportional to the actual danger posed, often being recognized as irrational.

The great majority of mollusk species produce pearls which are not attractive, and are sometimes not even very durable, such that they usually have no value at all, except perhaps to a scientist, a collector, or as a curiosity.

It has been variously assigned to 1715, 1716, 1720, and 1726, and it is usually added that he left a widow in great poverty.

In Classical times, many of the great thinkers and political leaders performed their works before an audience, usually in the context of a competition or contest for fame, political influence, and cultural capital ; in fact, many of them are known only through the texts that their students, followers, or detractors wrote down.