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ro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing.

A term sometimes applied to the effects (tetanus) produced in the muscles of the limbs, when a current of electricity is passed along the spinal cord or nerves.

To cause or produce electrotonus.

Fig.: Whatever produces the effect of moving and persuasive speech. Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes. Pope. The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence. Macaulay.

r profits of a crop which has been sown or planted; -- used especially in the plural. The produce of grass, trees, and the like, is not emblement. Wharton's Law Dict.

Pertaining to an embolism; produced by an embolism; as, an embolic abscess.

Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year.

A green compound used as a dyestuff, produced from aniline blue when acted upon by acid.

A swelling produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue. Emphysema of the lungs, Pulmonary emphysema (Med.), a common disease of the lungs in which the air cells are distended and their partition walls ruptured by an abnormal pressure of the air contained in them.

Pertaining to, or produced from, emulsin; as, emulsic acid. Hoblyn.

The effect produced by the act; the state of being enchanted; as, to break an enchantment.

To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget. [R.]

Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture. "Terrible engines of death." Sir W. Raleigh.

One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.

thin the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances. Opposed to epiperipheral.

e Protozoa, or the entoplastic modification of the cell protoplasm, by which a nucleus is produced.

Of or pertaining to the epigenesis; produced according to the theory of epigenesis.

nvulsions; -- applied to areas of the body or of the nervous system, stimulation of which produces convulsions.

originate at the extremities of nerves distributed on the outer surface, as the sensation produced by touching an object with the finger; -- opposed to entoperipheral. H. Spenser.

to the epipolic condition, or that in which the phenomenon of fluorescence is presented; produced by fluorescence; as, epipolized light. [R.] Stokes.