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aining to plants of the natural order Solanaceæ, of which the nightshade (Solanum) is the type. The order includes also the tobacco, ground cherry, tomato, eggplant, red pepper, and many more.

ng to a case, separately considered. Out of sorts (Print.), with some letters or sorts of type deficient or exhausted in the case or font; hence, colloquially, out of order; ill; vexed; disturbed. -- To run upon sorts (Print.), to use or require a greater number of some particular letters, figures, or marks than the r…

A small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, -- used to separate words or letters.

A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters.

with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozoön. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid.

To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport, n., 6. Darwin.

at the letters or lines stand awry or are mixed and need careful readjustment; -- said of type that has been set up.

To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.

Of or pertaining to stereotype, or stereotype plates.

A stereotyper.

A stereotype printer.

The act or art of printing from stereotype plates.

The art or process of making stereotype plates.

To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick; as, to stick type. [Cant]

As much set type as fills a composing stick.

One of the family of fishes of which the sturgeon is the type.

Deviating somewhat from the type of a species, genus, or other group; slightly aberrant.

e class of isomeric substances (as lactose, maltose, etc.) of which sucrose proper is the type.

A hypothetical radical, SH3, regarded as the type and nucleus of the sulphines.

to test other surfaces. -- Surface printing, printing from a surface in relief, as from type, in distinction from plate printing, in which the ink is contained in engraved lines.