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The ball formerly used to ink the type.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Portulacaceæ), of which Portulaca is the type, and which includes also the spring beauty (Claytonia) and other genera.

To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow. "Whom all the various types prefigured." South.

duced by a revolving cylinder under which the form passes; also, one in which the form of type or plates is curved around a cylinder, instead of resting on a flat bed. Hydrostatic press. See under Hydrostatic. -- Liberty of the press, the free right of publishing books, pamphlets, or papers, without previous restraint…

The art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done. MacKellar.

To prefigure; to exhibit previously in a type. Bp. Pearson.

A kind of type, of which there are two species; one, called long primer, intermediate in size between bourgeois and small pica [see Long primer]; the other, called great primer, larger than pica.

or pertaining to an order of herbaceous plants (Primulaceæ), of which the primrose is the type, and the pimpernel, the cyclamen, and the water violet are other examples.

To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book.

o prints; especially, one who prints books, newspapers, engravings, etc., a compositor; a typesetter; a pressman. Printer's devil, Printer's gauge. See under Devil, and Gauge. -- Printer's ink. See Printing ink, below.

ters, or figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business of a printer, including typesetting and presswork, with their adjuncts; typography; also, the act of producing photographic prints. Block printing. See under Block. -- Printing frame (Photog.), a shallow box, usually having a glass front, in which print…

A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet.

ypothetical hydrocarbon radical, CH3.CH2.CH, analogous to ethylidene, and regarded as the type of certain derivatives of propane; -- called also propylidene.

he first martyr; protomorphic, primitive in form; protoplast, a primordial organism; prototype, protozoan.

ine Bryozoa, having a bilobed lophophore and an axial cord. The genus Rhabdopleura is the type. Called also Podostomata. See Rhabdopleura.

A pompet. Pumpet ball (Print.), a ball for inking types; a pompet.

A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines. [Abbrev. quad.]

(Zoöl.), a fanciful classification based on the hypothesis that each group contains five types.

by extension, any one of the series of alkaloidal bases of which quinoline proper is the type. [Written also chinoline.]

a double ketone; also, by extension, any one of the series of which quinone proper is the type. [Written also chinone, kinone.]