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Of or pertaining to typography or printing; as, the typographic art. -- Ty`po*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

The art of printing with types; the use of types to produce impressions on paper, vellum, etc.

A branch of lithography in which impressions from printers' types are transferred to stone for reproduction. -- Ty`po*lith`o*graph"ic (#), a.

Printers; -- used in the name of an association of the master printers of the United States and Canada, called The United Typothetæ of America.

raise or support by something laid under; as, to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing. See Underlay, n., 2.

ar or artificially. It has a fine red color, and is much used in coloring sealing wax, in printing, etc.

An ink-distributing roller in a printing machine, having an additional vibratory motion.

ally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position; hence, by extension, any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which van…

A device used by photographers in printing vignettes, consisting of a screen of paper or glass with a central aperture the edges of which become opaque by intensible gradations.

Hence, a collection of printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single work, or a part of a work, or more than one work; a book; a tome; especially, that part of an extended work which is bound up together in one cover; as, a work in four volumes. An odd volume of a set of books bears not the value of its pr…

An annual feast of the persons employed in a printing office. [Written also way-goose.] [Eng.]

hite lime, a solution or preparation of lime for whitewashing; whitewash. -- White line (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line, on a printed page; a blank line. -- White meat. (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry.

s). -- Wood culver (Zoöl.), the wood pigeon. -- Wood cut, an engraving on wood; also, a print from such an engraving. -- Wood dove (Zoöl.), the stockdove. -- Wood drink, a decoction or infusion of medicinal woods. -- Wood duck (Zoöl.) (a) A very beautiful American duck (Aix sponsa). The male has a large crest, and…

A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing.…

An engraving on wood; also, a print from it. Same as Wood cut, under Wood.

Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.

To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.

Anything written or printed; anything expressed in characters or letters; as:

An engraving on wood, or the impression from such an engraving; a print by xylography.

The art of making prints from the natural grain of wood. Knight.