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A plate or block with a printing surface (usually in relief) obtained from a photograph; also, any one of the many methods of processes by which such a printing surface is obtained.

Of or pertaining to a phototype or phototypy.

Same as Phototypy.

The art or process of producing phototypes.

Of certain achromatic lenses, having the same focus for the actinic and for the brightest of the visual rays.

The process of producing a representation of an object on wood, by photography, for the use of the wood engraver.

A print made by photozincography. -- Pho`to*zin`co*graph"ic, a.

A process, analogous to photolithography, for reproducing photographed impressions transferred to zinc plate.

A species of tetanus, in which the body is curved laterally. Quain. Dunglison.

Pertaining to or designating arc lamps so constructed that more than one can be used on a single circuit.

Lit., a shot fired simply to fill the pot; hence, a shot fired at an animal or person when at rest or within easy range, or fired simply to kill, without reference to the rules of sport; a shot needling no special skill.

The treatment of disease by acting on the mind, as by suggestion; mind cure; psychotherapy.

Psychotherapeutics.

A bronze-colored mineral, of metallic luster. It is a sulphide of iron, and is remarkable for being attracted by the magnet. Called also magnetic pyrites.

Red with heat; heated to redness; as, red-hot iron; red-hot balls. Hence, figuratively, excited; violent; as, a red-hot radical. Shak.

The horny covering of the bill of birds.

An oversounding, or a misuse, of the letter r; specifically (Phylol.), the tendency, exhibited in the Indo-European languages, to change s to r, as wese to were.

Same as Hemiptera. [Written also Rhyncota.]

A Scotch round dance in 2-4 time, similar to the polka, only slower; also, the music for such a dance; -- not to be confounded with the Écossaise.

ay as to produce an effect of variegation, of changeable tints, or of being figured; as, shot silks. See Shoot, v. t., 8.