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A size of type between bourgeous and minion.

The small size of type used in England printing.

CH3)4, spontaneously inflammable and possessing an intensely disagreeable odor. It is the type of a series of compounds analogous to the nitrogen compounds called hydrazines. [Written also cacodyle, and kakodyl.]

found. If it did, it indicates an unprecedented antiquity for human beings of an advanced type.

a high degree of intricacy, imprinting the results on a leaden plate, from which a stereotype plate is then directly made.

A group of acalephs of which Lucernaria is the type. The body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida.

se made in the vicinity of Camembert, near Argentan, France; also, any cheese of the same type, wherever made.

rtaining to, or resembling, the family of plants (Camponulaceæ) of which Campanula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass.

To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Canceled figures (Print), figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics.

A kind of type. See Canon. Cannon ball, strictly, a round solid missile of stone or iron made to be fired from a cannon, but now often applied to a missile of any shape, whether solid or hollow, made for cannon. Elongated and cylindrical missiles are sometimes called bolts; hollow ones charged with explosives are prope…

The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.

Of or pertaining to the tribe of ruminants of which the goat, or genus Capra, is the type.

on, any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol is the type.

pposing point. -- Carbon tissue, paper coated with gelatine and pigment, used in the autotype process of photography. Abney. -- Gas carbon, a compact variety of carbon obtained as an incrustation on the interior of gas retorts, and used for the manufacture of the carbon rods of pencils for the voltaic, arc, and for t…

Belonging to the family of which the pink and the carnation are the types.

A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type.

To stereotype or electrotype.

A division of Protozoa, of which Magosphæra is the type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies.

hite races of mankind, of whom the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type.

s, as the essential oils of cloves, cubebs, juniper, etc., of which cedrene proper is the type. [Written also cedren.]