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Any one of a family of bivalves, of which the oyster is the type.

A suborder of fishes of which Ostracion is the type.

p copy; an omission. To make an out (Print.), to omit something, in setting or correcting type, which was in the copy.

To carry over, or back, as type, from one line or page into the next after, or next before.

The type set up for printing a page.

Any one of a tribe of anomuran crustaceans, of which Pagurus is a type; the hermit crab. See Hermit crab, under Hermit.

A size of type between great primer and double pica. See the Note under Type.

A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreæ, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.

Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine. I will be the pattern of all patience. Shak.

A size of type, between agate and diamond. * This line is printed in the type called pearl. Ground pearl. (Zoöl.) See under Ground. -- Pearl barley, kernels of barley, ground so as to form small, round grains. -- Pearl diver, one who dives for pearl oysters. -- Pearl edge, an edge of small loops on the side of some…

A theory which explains inheritance by the transmission of the type of growth force possessed by one generation to another.

Any one of the series of hydroxyl derivatives of which phenol proper is the type. Glacial phenol (Chem.), pure crystallized phenol or carbolic acid. -- Phenol acid (Chem.), any one of a series of compounds which are at once derivatives of both phenol and some member of the fatty acid series; thus, salicylic acid is a…

A lover or friend of women; one who esteems woman as the higher type of humanity; -- opposed to Ant: misogynist.

A combining form from Gr. fw^s, fwto`s, light; as, photography, phototype, photometer.

The art of making photochromotypes.

The art or process of making photo-electrotypes. Sir D. Brewster.

Of or pertaining to a phototype or phototypy.

The art or process of producing phototypes.

ne substance; hence, by extension, any one of the series of which phthalide proper is the type. [Written also phthalid.]

sily converted by oxidation; hence, any one of the series of which phthalin proper is the type.