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

A class of parasitic worms (Platelminthes) of which the tapeworms are the most common examples. The body is flattened, and usually but not always long, and composed of numerous joints or segments, each of which may contain a complete set of male and female reproductive organs. They have neither mouth nor intestine. See…

the genus Cestracion, and of related genera. The posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing shellfish. Most of the species are extinct. The Port Jackson shark and a similar one found in California are living examples.

The Mysticete or whalebone whales, having no true teeth after birth, but with a series of plates of whalebone [see Baleen.] hanging down from the upper jaw on each side, thus making a strainer, through which they receive the small animals upon which they feed. (b) The Denticete, including the dolphins and sperm whale,…

t cables, anchors, etc. -- Chain bolt (a) (Naut.) The bolt at the lower end of the chain plate, which fastens it to the vessel's side. (b) A bolt with a chain attached for drawing it out of position. -- Chain bond. See Chain timber. -- Chain bridge, a bridge supported by chain cables; a suspension bridge. -- Chain…

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

The metal plate or tip which protects the end of a scabbard, belt, etc. Knight.

A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mold.

les, perculiar in having a part of the vertebræ, ribs, and sternum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix.

One of a number of processes by which an impression from an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an ordinary printing press.

One of the round, or oval, horny plates on the inner sides of the legs of the horse, and allied animals.

One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.

To treat or prepare with a chloride, as a plate with chloride of silver, for the purposes of photography. R. Hunt.

An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc.

A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief. Cliché casting, a mode of obtaining an impression from a die or woodcut, or the like, by striking it suddenly upon metal which has been fused and is just becoming solid; also, the casting so obtained.

easuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.

An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.

Furnished with a shield, or a protective plate or shell.

The frontal plate of the head of an insect.

An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.