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One who reprints.

very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner [in a quarter-mile race] should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit.

One who sprints; one who runs in sprint races; as, a champion sprinter.

To transfer to the wrong place in printing; to print out of place. [R.] Coleridge.

A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.

To give public notice of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.

A public notice, especially a paid notice in some public print; anything that advertises; as, a newspaper containing many advertisement.

A written or printed notice to be posted, as on a wall; a poster; a placard.

A picture printed from a kind of gelatine plate produced by means of a photographic negative.

More commonly, inability, due to brain disease, to understand written or printed symbols although they can be seen, as in case of word blindness.

The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.

Art or process of producing, and printing from, aluminium plates, after the manner of ordinary lithography. -- A*lu`mi*no*graph"ic (#), a.

Pertaining to a process or a style of printing from characters in relief on zinc plates.

Orig., a printing-out process using paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin; now, any such process using silver salts in either collodion or gelatin; also, a print so made.

votes that secrecy is compulsorily maintained, and the ballot used is an official ballot printed and distributed by the government.

An instrument for the instantaneous self-recording or printing of time. Knight.

A process resembling "nature printing," by which drawings executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which the printing is done as from copperplate.

ion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking. Numb. xxii. 30. [Cant] Balaam basket or box (Print.), the receptacle for rejected articles. Blackw. Mag.

A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.

Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.