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A kind of typesetting machine which produces castings, each of which corresponds to a line of separate types. By pressing upon keys like those of a typewriter the matrices for one line are properly arranged; the stereotype, or slug, is then cast and planed, and the matrices are returned to their proper places, the whol…

A kind of stereotype plate made by lithotypy; also, that which in printed from it. See Lithotypy.

A single type, containing two or more letters; as, æ, Æ, fi, fl, ffl, etc. ; -- called also ligature.

See Melanotype.

ng a thin plate of iron; also, the process of making such a picture. [Written also melainotype.]

A picture produced by a process in which development after exposure may be deferred indefinitely, so as to permit transportation of exposed plates; also, the process itself.

An old term covering natrolite or soda mesolite, scolecite or lime mesotype, and mesolite or lime-soda mesotype.

Having but one type; containing but one representative; as, a monotypic genus, which contains but one species.

The part of the oviduct of certain trematode worms in which the ova are completed and furnished with a shell.

A picture taken on "milky" glass.

A system of representing all spoken sounds by means of the printing types in common use. Ellis. -- Pa`læ*o*typ"ic*al, a. -- Pa`læ*o*typ"ic*al*ly, adv.

See Palæotype.

A type or character used in phonotypy.

An electrotype plate formed in a mold made by photographing on prepared gelatine, etc.

A colored print made photomechanically.

A photomechanical process similar to collotype.

A plate or block with a printing surface (usually in relief) obtained from a photograph; also, any one of the many methods of processes by which such a printing surface is obtained.

A permanent photographic picture or print in platinum black.

A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc. (see citation); as, a polytype in relief. By pressing the wood cut into semifluid metal, an intaglio matrix is produced: and from this matrix, in a similar way, a polytype in relief is obtained. Hansard.

A copy of a print, writing, etc., made by placing it upon a chemically prepared paper which is acted upon by a gas which permeates the paper of the print, writing, etc.