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One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent. In all affairs thou sole director. Swift.

One who disarticulates and prepares skeletons.

One who dissimulates; a dissembler.

Like a doctor or learned man. [Obs.] "Doctorly prelates." Foxe.

A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils. The pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Longfellow.

e made, without moistening. -- Dry-plate process, the process of photographing with dry plates. -- Dry point. (Fine Arts) (a) An engraving made with the needle instead of the burin, in which the work is done nearly as in etching, but is finished without the use acid. (b) A print from such an engraving, usually upon p…

A picture printed from two half-tone plates made with the screen set at different angles, and usually printed in two shades of the same color or in black and one tint.

A print made from two half-tone plates made from the same negative, but etched differently.

That department of musical science which relates to, or treats of, the power of tones.

edge, nailed across the rafters at the eaves of a building, to raise the lower course of slates a little, or to receive the lowest course of tiles; -- called also eaves catch and eaves lath. -- Eaves channel, Eaves gutter, Eaves trough. Same as Gutter,

ve a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid. [Written also Echinidea, and Echinoida.]

hine, a machine tool with a revolving cutter, for dressing edges, as of boards, or metal plates, to a pattern or templet.

ainting or a literary work. The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant. Arbuthnot.

One who, or that which, elates.

One who electroplates.

To make facsimile plates of by the electrotype process; as to electrotype a page of type, a book, etc. See Electrotype, n.

The process of producing electrotype plates. See Note under Electrotype, n.

One who, or that which, emasculates.

The science which relates to the formation and development of the embryo in animals and plants; a study of the gradual development of the ovum until it reaches the adult stage.

One who emulates, or strives to equal or surpass. As Virgil rivaled Homer, Milton was the emulator of both. Bp. Warburton.