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uick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by a main armament of big guns all of the same caliber. She has a displacement of 17,900 tons at load draft, and a speed of 21 knots per hour.

In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.

Any picture printed in two shades of the same color, as duotypes and duographs are usually printed.

outside; -- so called from the village of Edam, near Amsterdam. Also, cheese of the same type, wherever made.

An electrotype.

The act or the process of making electrotypes.

The process of producing electrotype plates. See Note under Electrotype, n.

family at Amsterdam, Leyden, etc., from about 1592 to 1680; also, applied to a round open type introduced by them. The Elzevir editions are valued for their neatness, and the elegant small types used. Brande & C.

The portion of a line formerly occupied by the letter m, then a square type, used as a unit by which to measure the amount of printed matter on a page; the square of the body of a type.

A kind of type, in size between minion and nonpare

A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type.

nes in general, not a specific machine. push the envelope Increase the capability of some type of machine or system; -- usu. by technological development.

Any compound of ethyl of a binary type; as, potassium ethide.

Ethylene series (Chem.), the series if unsaturated hydrocarbons of which ethylene is the type, and represented by the general formula CnH2n.

Diverging from, or lacking conformity to, a type.

An extinct order of Merostomata, of which the genus Eurypterus is the type. They are found only in Paleozoic rocks. [Written also Eurypterida.]

original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives. Such grand exemplar as make their own abilities the sole measure of what is fit or unfit. South.

n of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Extended letter (Typog.), a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height.

Having one's mental imagery prevailingly of the visual type; having one's thoughts and memories mainly in the form of visual images. -- Eye"-mind`ed*ness, n.

The upper surface, or the character upon the surface, of a type, plate, etc.