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An electrotype plate formed in a mold made by photographing on prepared gelatine, etc.

Art or process of decorating pottery with photographically prepared designs. -- Pho`to*ce*ram"ic (#), a.

ic*al*ly, adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically prepared paper, from photographic negatives, by exposure to light.

A lithographic picture or copy from a stone prepared by the aid of photography.

Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle.

Hylobius, etc. -- Pine wool, a fiber obtained from pine needles by steaming them. It is prepared on a large scale in some of the Southern United States, and has many uses in the economic arts; -- called also pine- needle wool, and pine-wood wool.

acia vera, which yields the pistachio nut; also, the nut itself and the flavoring extract prepared from it.

An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster…

Platinum. Platina mohr, platinum black. -- Platina yellow, a pigment prepared from platinum.

ridges in; to run through, as in sailing. Let patient Octavia plow thy visage up With her prepared nails. Shak. With speed we plow the watery way. Pope.

One who prepared corpses for the funeral.

A similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.

A compound which exhibits, or from which may be prepared, a variety of colors, as certain solutions derived from vegetables, which display colors by fluorescence.

A kind of oil cake prepared from the cocoanut. See Oil cake, under Cake.

A copy of a print, writing, etc., made by placing it upon a chemically prepared paper which is acted upon by a gas which permeates the paper of the print, writing, etc.

A dish of broth, meat, and vegetables prepared by boiling in a pot, -- a dish esp. common among the French. Grant Allen.

rystalline powder obtained by heating mercuric nitrate, or by heating mercury in the air. Prepared in the latter manner, it was the precipitate per se of the alchemists. -- White precipitate (Old Chem.) (a) A heavy white amorphous powder (NH2.HgCl) obtained by adding ammonia to a solution of mercuric chloride or corro…

Capable of being prepared. "Medicine preparable by art." Boyle.

The state of being prepared or made ready; preparedness; readiness; fitness; as, a nation in good preparation for war.

e or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson. Our souls, not yet prepared for upper light. Dryden.