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Containing impressions of fossil fucoids or seaweeds; as, fucoidal sandstone.

A movement or phase of post-impressionism (which see, below).

A plate made by glyphography, or an impression taken from such a plate.

- Gold tooling, the fixing of gold leaf by a hot tool upon book covers, or the ornamental impression so made. -- Gold washings, places where gold found in gravel is separated from lighter material by washing. -- Gold worm, a glowworm. [Obs.] -- Jeweler's gold, an alloy containing three parts of gold to one of copper.…

Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignifled, or noble (said of persons); majestic, splendid, magnificent, or sublime (said of things); as, a grand monarch; a grand lord; a grand general; a grand view; a grand conception. They are the highest models of expression, the unapproa…

Impressive or elevating in effect; vimposing; splendid; striking; -- in a good sense. The tone of the parts was to be perpetually kept down in order not to impair the grandiose effect of the whole. M. Arnold. The grandiose red tulips which grow wild. C. Kingsley.

Having the faculty of, or characterized by, clear and impressive description; vivid; as, a gruphic writer. Graphic algebra, a branch of algebra in which, the properties of equations are treated by the use of curves and straight lines. -- Graphic arts, a name given to those fine arts which pertain to the representation…

To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly. O! may they graven in thy heart remain. Prior.

Impression, as upon the mind or heart. New gravings upon their souls. Eikon Basilike

; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable. "Harden not your heart." Ps. xcv. 8. I would harden myself in sorrow. Job vi. 10.

f transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.

its, but this use is now obsolete. No comfortable star did lend his light. Shak. Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root Shak.

To cause to feel horror; to strike or impress with horror; as, the sight horrified the beholders. E. Irving.

A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.

To tincture deply; to cause to become impressed or penetrated; as, to imbue the minds of youth with good principles. Thy words with grace divine Imbued, bring to their sweetness no satiety. Milton.

Not capable of being affected or moved in feeling or by sympathy; unimpressible; impassive. Dryden.

Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force communicated. The quarrel, by that impact driven. Southey.

Insusceptibility of intellectual or emotional impression; obtuseness; stupidity; coldness.

Inaccessible, as to knowledge, reason, sympathy, etc.; unimpressible; not to be moved by arguments or motives; as, an impenetrable mind, or heart. They will be credulous in all affairs of life, but impenetrable by a sermon of the gospel. Jer. Taylor.

Pictured; impressed. [Obs.] Spenser.