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chemical tests to minute objects or portions of matter, magnified by the use of the microscopy; -- distinguished from macro-chemistry.

Pertaining to microscopy, or to the use of the microscope. Huxley.

Of or pertaining to the microscope or to microscopy; made with a microscope; as, microscopic observation.

One skilled in, or given to, microscopy.

A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.

An autographic stencil copying device invented by Edison.

One who imitates or mimics, especially one who does so for sport; a copyist; a buffoon. Burke.

Being on a small; much reduced from the reality; as, a miniature copy.

A mistake in printing; a deviation from the copy; as, a book full of misprints.

Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact. Thou seest thy wretched brother die, Who was the model of thy father's life. Shak.

pheres. -- Music paper, paper ruled with the musical staff, for the use of composers and copyists. -- Music pen, a pen for ruling at one time the five lines of the musical staff. -- Music shell (Zoöl.), a handsomely colored marine gastropod shell (Voluta musica) found in the East Indies; -- so called because the col…

- Office bearer, an officer; one who has a specific office or duty to perform. -- Office copy (Law), an authenticated or certified copy of a record, from the proper office. See Certified copies, under Copy. Abbott. -- Office-found (Law), the finding of an inquest of office. See under Inquest. -- Office holder. See O…

That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc. The Scriptures may be now read in their own original. Milton.

Of or pertaining to the otoscope or to otoscopy.

A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission. To make an out (Print.), to omit something, in setting or correcting type, which was in the copy.

An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale. [Written also pantagraph, and incorrectly pentagraph.] Skew pantograph, a kind of pantograph for drawing a copy which is inclined with respect to the original figure; -- also called plagiograph.…

he word is also used of other means of multiplying copies of writings, drawings, etc. See Copygraph, Hectograph, Manifold.

Something made after a model; a copy. Shak. The patterns of things in the heavens. Heb. ix. 23.

A lithographic picture or copy from a stone prepared by the aid of photography.

A word appended to the artist's name or initials on a painting, or engraved copy of a painting; as, Rubens pinxit, Rubens painted (this).