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Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue.

The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form.

That has no type; devoid of typical character; irregular; unlike the type.

Aurantiaceæ, an order of plants (formerly considered natural), of which the orange is the type.

The art or process of making autotypes.

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

-- Bastard file, a file intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut. -- Bastard type (Print.), type having the face of a larger or a smaller size than the body; e.g., a nonpareil face on a brevier body. -- Bastard wing (Zoöl.), three to five quill feathers on a small joint corresponding to the thumb in some…

A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.

strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

Of a mild type or character; as, a benign disease.

ng, consisting of six carbon atoms, each with one hydrogen atom attached, regarded as the type from which the aromatic compounds are derived. This ring formula is provisionally accepted as representing the probable constitution of the benzene molecule, C6H6, and as the type on which its derivatives are formed.…

of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

tten, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.

A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.

A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types.

The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.

Of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence. Gray.

A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.

Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type.