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See Nature printing, under Nature.

A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates.

The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.

The act or practice of multiplying copies of one's own handwriting, or of manuscripts, by printing from stone, -- a species of lithography.

Executed in the manner of polychromy; as, polychrome printing.

a smooth, polished carapace. -- Porcelain jasper. (Min.) See Porcelanite. -- Porcelain printing, the transferring of an impression of an engraving to porcelain. -- Porcelain shell (Zoöl.), a cowry.

A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper. Post and pair, an old game at cards, in which each player a hand of three cards. B. Jonson. -- Post bag, a mail bag. -- Post bill, a bill of letters mailed by a postmaster. -- Post chaise, or Post coach, a carriage usually with four wheels, for the con…

Of or pertaining to printing; typographical. [Obs.] Fuller.

Specifically, a printing press.

One who manages, or attends to, a press, esp. a printing press.

The art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done. MacKellar.

That which is produced by printing. Specifically:

man. Printer's devil, Printer's gauge. See under Devil, and Gauge. -- Printer's ink. See Printing ink, below.

A place where cloth is printed; print works; also, a printing office. [R.]

ishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.

A process of printing, ornamenting, or carving, by burning with heated instruments.

Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size.

ge, etc., to increase fraudulently its nominal value by changing the writing, figures, or printing in which the sum payable is specified. -- To raise a siege, to relinquish an attempt to take a place by besieging it, or to cause the attempt to be relinquished. -- To raise steam, to produce steam of a required pressur…

To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events. Those things th…

te of metal, when the engraving has not been deep enough, or the plate has become worn in printing.