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A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope.

A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse.

A tracing of the respiratory movements, obtained by a pneumatograph or stethograph.

, etc. Pounce box, a box for sprinkling pounce. -- Pounce paper, a transparent paper for tracing.

The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick; also, the act of tracing a hare by its footmarks. [Obs.]

. See under Core. Blue print, a copy in white lines on a blue ground, of a drawing, plan, tracing, etc., or a positive picture in blue and white, from a negative, produced by photographic printing on peculiarly prepared paper.blueprint for action -- In print. (a) In a printed form; issued from the press; published. Sha…

ted into the cordage of the British navy, to identify it if stolen, or for the purpose of tracing the maker in case of defect. Different makers are required to use yarns of different colors.

The tracing of veins of metal by shoads. [Written also shoding.] Pryce.

the cards in a pack. A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind. Rombler.

erial, as ground glass, upon which a copy of a picture, placed beneath it, can be made by tracing.

A tracing, called a pulse tracing, consisting of a series of curves corresponding with the beats of the heart, obtained by the application of the sphygmograph.

Relating to, or produced by, a sphygmograph; as, a sphygmographic tracing.

A mode of writing or tracing lines by means of a style on cards or tablets.

To copy; to imitate. That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word, and line by line. Denham.

ial pulse in which there is a triple beat. The pulse curve obtained in the sphygmographic tracing characteristic of tricrotism shows two secondary crests in addition to the primary.

g books. Vellum cloth, a fine kind of cotton fabric, made very transparent, and used as a tracing cloth.

An instrument for observing or tracing vibrations.