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.) A shaft, windlass, or roller, worked by levers at opposite ends, as in the copperplate printing press. (b) A driving axle. with cranks set at an angle of 90º with each other. -- Cross bedding (Geol.), oblique lamination of horizontal beds, -- Cross bill. See in the Vocabulary. -- Cross bitt. Same as Crosspiece. -…

es of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing.

A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis. John Wilson.…

A printing and a writing paper of particular sizes. See under Paper.

il forces of nature are of equal power. -- Printer's devil, the youngest apprentice in a printing office, who runs on errands, does dirty work (as washing the ink rollers and sweeping), etc. "Without fearing the printer's devil or the sheriff's officer." Macaulay. -- Tasmanian devil (Zoöl.), a very savage carnivorous…

The smallest kind of type in English printing, except that called brilliant, which is seldom seen.

d. A brilliant career of discovery and conquest. Prescott. We speak of the "invention" of printing, the discovery of America. Trench.

An appliance, as a roller, in a printing press, for distributing ink.

to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico- printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine.

g superfluous ink or coloring matter from a roller. See Doctor, 4. Knight. Ductor roller (Printing), the roller which conveys or supplies ink to another roller. Knight.

of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing.

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

A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type.

An error or mistake in writing or printing. A single erratum may knock out the brains of a whole passage. Cowper.

y; mistake; inaccuracy; something made wrong or left wrong; as, an error in writing or in printing; a clerical error.

To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press.

A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the same work.

A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other. Ure.

A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.

An inclined plane under a hand printing press.