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A process, analogous to photolithography, for reproducing photographed impressions transferred to zinc plate.

A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.

(b) A kind of hone or whetstone; hone slate. -- Polishing snake, a tool used in cleaning lithographic stones. -- Polishing wheel, a wheel or disk coated with, or composed of, abrading material, for polishing a surface.

pies of one's own handwriting, or of manuscripts, by printing from stone, -- a species of lithography.

ter (Zoöl.), the echidna. -- Porcupine crab (Zoöl.), a large spiny Japanese crab (Acantholithodes hystrix). -- Porcupine disease (Med.). See Ichthyosis. -- Porcupine fish (Zoöl.), any plectognath fish having the body covered with spines which become erect when the body is inflated. See Diodon, and Globefish. -- Por…

pigment which is used by the North American Indians, as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum (L. hirtum, and L. canescens); also, the pigment itself.

adjustment of the several impressions in a design which is printed in parts, as in chromolithographic printing, or in the manufacture of paper hangings. See Register, v. i. 2.

- said of certain mollusks which live in holes which they burrow in rocks. See Illust. of Lithodomus.

Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.

An inking pad used in lithographic printing.

ove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone. Tomlinson.

Same as Trilithon. Mollett.

A lithographic drawing or painting material of the same nature as lithographic ink. It is also used as a resistant in the biting-in process.