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A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other. Ure.

A writing paper made in sheets, ordinarily 16 x 13 inches, and folded so as to make a page 13 x 8 inches. See Paper.

ently a vegetable resin, partly changed by remaining in the earth. -- Fossil cork, flax, paper, or wood, varieties of amianthus. -- Fossil farina, a soft carbonate of lime. -- Fossil ore, fossiliferous red hematite. Raymond.

A machine used in making paper; -- so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery.

Discolored or stained; -- said of timber, and also of the paper of books or engravings.

repeated solution and crystallization therefrom. -- Fractional currency, small coin, or paper notes, in circulation, of less value than the monetary unit. -- Fractional distillation (Chem.), a process of distillation so conducted that a mixture of liquids, differing considerably from each other in their boiling poin…

The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.

ut in a cowardly fashion. [Colloq.] To funk right out o' political strife. Lowell (Biglow Papers).

A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; esp., the official journal published by the British government, and containing legal and state notices.

A newspaper; a gazette. [Obs.] Burke.

gures or lines, formed by little dots or points, originally on the earth, and latterly on paper.

Having a gilt edge; as, gilt-edged paper.

ss; as, to glaze earthenware; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like. Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears. Shak.

e who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like.

hich any surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of pottery or porcelain, or of paper.

An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc.. from leather, paper, etc. Knight.

granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a trace on paper. It is used for pencils (improperly called lead pencils), for crucibles, and as a lubricator, etc. Often called plumbago or black lead. Graphite battery (Elec.), a voltaic battery consisting of zinc and carbon in sulphuric a…

the acetate and arsenite of copper. It has found very extensive use as a pigment for wall paper, artificial flowers, etc., but particularly as an exterminator of insects, as the potato bug; -- called also Schweinfurth green, imperial green, Vienna green, emerald qreen, and mitis green. -- Scheele's green (Chem.), a gr…

One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments. [Colloq. U. S.]

To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching (see Ground, n., 5); or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.