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lled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.

mode of printing (common in China and Japan) from engraved boards by means of a sheet of paper laid on the linked surface and rubbed with a brush. S. W. Williams. (b) A method of printing cotton cloth and paper hangings with colors, by pressing them upon an engraved surface coated with coloring matter. -- Block syste…

To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.

A similar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for discharging paper wads and other light missiles.

A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers. [Eng.]

That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance. As for those who cleanse blurs with blotted fingers, they make it worse. Fuller.

Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.

A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing.

Work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work.

seal. See Bull. -- Brief of title, an abstract or abridgment of all the deeds and other papers constituting the chain of title to any real estate. -- In brief, in a few words; in short; briefly. "Open the matter in brief." Shak.

A sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed on one side only; -- called also broadsheet.

, which has a brown streak. See Limonite. -- Brown holland. See under Holland. -- Brown paper, dark colored paper, esp. coarse wrapping paper, made of unbleached materials. -- Brown spar (Min.), a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite. -- Brown stone. See Brownstone. -- Brown stout, a st…

y. Bulletin board, a board on which announcements are put, particularly at newsrooms, newspaper offices, etc.

An advocate for a metallic currency, or a paper currency always convertible into gold.

nvenient for handling or conveyance; a loose package; a roll; as, a bundle of straw or of paper; a bundle of old clothes. The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle, no strength could bend. Goldsmith. Bundle pillar (Arch.), a column or pier, with others of small dimensions attached to it. Weale.…

Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers. Swift.

pecifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air. Dryden. Now the village windows blaze, Burnished by the setting sun. Cunningham. Burnishing machine, a machine for smoothing and…

An ornamental casing for a flowerpot, of porcelain, metal, paper, etc.

A namber of sheets of paper put loosely together; esp. one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers.

ly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule; as, a calendar of state papers; a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assemblly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy.