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duction, consisting of a flat cake of resin, shelllac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal.

A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively.

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

German-silver plate. See German silver, under German.

A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself.

tiful bombycid moths, with transparent spots on the wings; as the American Cecropia moth (Platysamia cecropia), and the European species (Saturnia pavonia). -- Emperor paper. See under Paper. -- Purple emperor (Zoöl.), a large, strong British butterfly (Apatura iris).

nd aërial substance; pertaining to the highest and purest region of heaven. Go, soar with Plato to the empyreal sphere. Pope. Empyreal air, oxygen gas.

Serving to show or exhibit; as, an endeictic dialogue, in the Platonic philosophy, is one which exhibits a specimen of skill. Enfield.

A plate which supports the labrum in certain Crustacea.

An internal process of the sternal plates in the thorax of insects.

and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper.

he orders of Nemertina, characterized by the presence of a peculiar armature of spines or plates in the proboscis.

The median plate of the plastron of turtles; -- called also entosternum.

was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front. Exodus xxviii. 6-12.

One of the first pair of lateral plates in the plastron of turtles.

A thin metal plate or shield to protect wood, or for ornament, as the shield around a keyhole.

A defense for the shoulder, composed of flexible overlapping plates of metal, used in the 15th century; -- the origin of the modern epaulette. Fairholt.

A grass plat; a lawn. Simmonds.

f the floor of a room raised above the general level, as a place for a bed or a throne; a platform; a dais. He [the teacher] himself should have his desk on a mounted estrade or platform. J. G. Fitch.

To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal. I was etching a plate at the beginning of 1875. Hamerton.