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en; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.

A crisp, hard, thin paper, sometimes used for postage stamps.

To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet. "A prayer elaborately penned." Milton.

ies. Locke. Perfecting press (Print.), a press in which the printing on both sides of the paper is completed in one passage through the machine.

raphy; as, to photograph a view; to photograph a group. He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood. Hamerton.

adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically prepared paper, from photographic negatives, by exposure to light.

A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet. MacKellar.

A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model. Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects. Bacon. The young king's picture . .…

nite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper.

ernate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; -- commonly called Volta's pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.

e of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.

To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles.

tained from the Agave Americana and other related species, -- used for making cordage and paper. Called also pita fiber, and pita thread.

importance; as, the speech lacked pith. Enterprises of great pith and moment. Shak. Pith paper. Same as Rice paper, under Rice.

A written or printed paper, as an advertisement or a declaration, posted, or to be posted, in a public place; a poster.

pported on casters and having a pencil attached. The characters produced by the pencil on paper, while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are sometimes translated as of oracular or supernatural import.

To calender; as, to plate paper.

The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.

A machine for calendering paper.

To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.