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ogs. Crabb. (c) (Naut.) To untie, throw off, or let go, as a rope. -- To cast off copy, (Print.), to estimate how much printed matter a given amount of copy will make, or how large the page must be in order that the copy may make a given number of pages. -- To cast one's self on or upon to yield or submit one's self…

orner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing.

Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer. Hansard.

A printing process of engraving on a surface of wax spread on a steel plate, for electrotyping.

An engraver on copper or brass; hence, an engraver of copper plates for printing upon paper.

The act or art of engraving on copper or brass, especially of engraving for printing.

A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the peculiar form of letters used by a particular person or people; as, an inscription in the Runic character. You know the character to be your brother's Shak.

To engrave or imprint. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix.

esses by which an impression from an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an ordinary printing press.

Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of different colors, and often glazed. Swift.

romate, lead chromate, etc., which are brilliantly colored and are used dyeing and calico printing. Called also chrome.

A picture printed in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process.

Lithography adapted to printing in inks of various colors.

A photolithograph printed in colors.

A sheet printed in colors by any process, as a chromolithograph. See Chromolithograph.

Pica type; -- so called by French printers.

A circular letter, or paper, usually printed, copies of which are addressed or given to various persons; as, a business circular.

To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious. Our common prints would clear up their understandings. Addison