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A printing surface in relief, obtained by photographic means and subsequent manipulations. Knight.

imp. & p. p. of Ply.

A kind of small pinchers with long jaws, -- used for bending or cutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such as the parts of a watch, etc.

The bar-tailed godwit. [Prov. Eng.]

Having a protuberant belly, like the bottom of a pot.

See Purlieu.

The act of leaping forth or forward; projection. "Such prosiliency of relief." Coleridge.

t to the former owners their rights. Then as a tiger, who by chance hath spied In some purlieu two gentle fawns at play. Milton.

One who rallies.

as the Constitutional Right from its position in the Chambers, mainly monarchists who rallied to the support of the Republic in obedience to the encyclical put forth by Pope Leo XIII. in Feb., 1892.

The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which some ease is obtained; succor; alleviation; comfort; ease; redress. He seec the dire contagion spread so fast, That, where it seizes, all relief is vain. Dryden.…

Giving relief. [Obs.]

Destitute of relief; also, remediless.

One who relies.

Capable of being relieved; fitted to recieve relief. Sir M. Hale.

To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to Her tall figure relieved against the blue sky; seemed almost of supernatural height. Sir W. Scott.

The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; relief; release. [Archaic.]

One who, or that which, relieves.

Serving or tending to relieve. Relieving arch (Arch.), a discharging arch. See under Discharge, v. t. -- Relieving tackle. (Naut.) (a) A temporary tackle attached to the tiller of a vessel during gales or an action, in case of accident to the tiller ropes. (b) A strong tackle from a wharf to a careened vessel, to prev…

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