Bible Dictionaries
Self-Acting

Webster's Dictionary

(a.) Acting of or by one's self or by itself; - said especially of a machine or mechanism which is made to perform of or for itself what is usually done by human agency; automatic; as, a self-acting feed apparatus; a self-acting mule; a self-acting press.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Self-Acting'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/self-acting.html. 1828.