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Conception consists in a conscious act of the understanding, bringing any given object or impression into the same class with any number of other objects or impression, by means of some character or characters common to them all. Coleridge.

Of or pertaining to shells; resembling a shell; as, conchyliaceous impressions. Kirwan.

To impart or communicate; as, to convey an impression; to convey information. Men fill one another's heads with noise and sound, but convey not thereby their thoughts. Locke.

An impression on paper taken from such a plate.

. -- Core print (Founding), a projecting piece on a pattern which forms, in the mold, an impression for holding in place or steadying a core.

A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another thing, or which suplements it; that which serves to complete or complement anything; hence, a person or thing having qualities lacking in another; an opposite. O counterpart Of our sof…

To take a counter proof of, or a copy in reverse, by taking an impression directly from the face of an original. See Counter proof, under Counter.

A tool for making the band impression distinct on the back. Knight.

A movement or phase in post-impressionism (which see, below). - - Cu"bist (#), n.

ss to receive impressed patterns, like those produced by chasing metal, and to retain the impression permanently.

An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts.

Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing.

Capable of being blotted out or erased. "An impression easily deleble." Fuller.

intains that the primitive elements of language are reflex expressions induced by sensory impressions; that is, as stated by Max Müller, the creative faculty gave to each general conception as it thrilled for the first time through the brain a phonetic expression; -- jocosely so called from the analogy of the sound of…

The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent. Dryden. Every dint a sword had beaten in it [the shield]. Tennyson.

In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.

rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries. Like a mad prophet in an…

To destroy, as a mental impression; to wear away. Efface from his mind the theories and notions vulgarly received. Bacon.

Impression left on the mind; sensation produced. Patchwork . . . introduced for oratorical effect. J. C. Shairp. The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place. W. Irving.

A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively.