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A system of printing or writing for the blind in which the characters are represented by tangible points or dots. It was invented by Louis Braille, a French teacher of the blind.

An implement for braying and spreading ink in hand printing.

An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc. All modern trash is Set forth with numerous breaks and dashes. Swift.

The small size of type used in England printing.

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

A printed and stitched book containing only a few leaves; a pamphlet.

sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging.

An extinct animal of large size, known from its three-toed footprints in Mesozoic sandstone.

A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze. A print, a bronze, a flower, a root. Prior.

ing melted butter at table. -- Butter flower, the buttercup, a yellow flower. -- Butter print, a piece of carved wood used to mark pats of butter; -- called also butter stamp. Locke. -- Butter tooth, either of the two middle incisors of the upper jaw. -- Butter tree (Bot.), a tree of the genus Bassia, the seeds of…

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

z. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high degree of intricacy, imprinting the results on a leaden plate, from which a stereotype plate is then directly made.

s, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc. [Eng.] The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company. Beck (Draper's Dict. ).

To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Canceled figures (Print), figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics.

A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing.

The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.

See Capital letter, under Capital, a. Active capital. See under Active, -- Small capital (Print.), a small capital letter. See under Capital, a. -- To live on one's capital, to consume one's capital without producing or accumulating anything to replace it.

To print in capital letters, or with an initial capital.

A printing process depending on the effect of light on bichromatized gelatin. Paper coated with a mixture of the gelatin and a pigment is called carbon paper or carbon tissue. This is exposed under a negative and the film is transferred from the paper to some other support and developed by washing (the unexposed portio…

request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair.