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and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate.

"nature printing," by which drawings executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which the printing is done as from copperplate.

Subulate. See Subulate. Gray.

The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically; -- also called a jaw in the United States, and a housing in England.

Of or relating to one of the early races in Mexico that inhabited the great plateau of that country at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1519. -- n.

of the English alphabet. (See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 196,220.) It is etymologically related to p , v , f , w and m , letters representing sounds having a close organic affinity to its own sound; as in Eng. bursar and purser; Eng. bear and Lat. pear; Eng. silver and Ger. silber; Lat. cubitum and It. gomito; Eng. sev…

A worshiper of Baal; a devotee of any false religion; an idolater.

To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

, or a group of pipes set in the fire box of a stove or furnace, through which water circulates and is heated.

Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad- backed; hump- backed.

Late or behindhand; as, a backward season.

To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.

A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; -- often called simply a balance.

Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balænoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

water at the end of a lever. -- Ball gudgeon, a pivot of a spherical form, which permits lateral deflection of the arbor or shaft, while retaining the pivot in its socket. Knight. -- Ball lever, the lever used in a ball cock. -- Ball of the eye, the eye itself, as distinguished from its lids and socket; -- formerly,…

bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.

t arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt.

Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.

in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England. Jamieson. Bannock fluke, the turbot. [Scot.]

That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.