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The process of applying additional colors, by applications of printing blocks, to patterns already partly colored.

f the several impressions in a design which is printed in parts, as in chromolithographic printing, or in the manufacture of paper hangings. See Register, v. i. 2.

ition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.).

To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition.

g press. (a) A machine for calendering cloth by pressure between revolving rollers. (b) A printing press with a roller, used in copperplate printing. -- Rolling stock, or Rolling plant, the locomotives and vehicles of a railway. -- Rolling tackle (Naut.), tackle used to steady the yards when the ship rolls heavily. R…

Printing and writing papers of particular sizes. See under paper, n.

A titlepage, or part of it, especially that giving the date and place of printing; also, the initial letters, etc., when printed in red.

A thin plate of metal (usually brass) of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.

before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used. Shak.

a. & n. from Scrimp, v. t. Scrimping bar, a device used in connection with a calico printing machine for stretching the fabric breadthwise so that it may be smooth for printing. Knight.

(Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing; as, to set up type. -- To set up the rigging (Naut.), to make it taut by means of tackles. R. H. Dana, Jr.

Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; of, or equal to, the size of one fold of a sheet of printing paper when folded so as to make sixteen leaves, or thirty-two pages; as, a sextodecimo volume.

A small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, -- used to separate words or letters.

The act of sprinting; a run of a short distance at full speed. Sprint race, a foot race at the highest running speed; -- usually limited to distance under a quarter of a mile.

A small India-rubber roller with a handle, used esp. in printing and photography as a squeegee.

-- Stannic chloride, a thin, colorless, fuming liquid, SnCl4, used as a mordant in calico printing and dyeing; -- formerly called spirit of tin, or fuming liquor of Libavius. -- Stannic oxide, tin oxide, SnO2, produced artificially as a white amorphous powder, and occurring naturally in the mineral cassiterite. It is…

Specifically, a radiated mark in writing or printing; an asterisk [thus, *]; -- used as a reference to a note, or to fill a blank where something is omitted, etc.

A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, used for printing.

The act or art of printing from stereotype plates.

stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone.