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A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other. Ure.

A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.

A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.

An inclined plane under a hand printing press.

a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc.

. A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.

A white or pale patch on a printed page.

The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.

rk at the oar on board a galley. "To toil like a galley slave." Macaulay.-- Galley slice (Print.), a sliding false bottom to a large galley. Knight.

A copperplate produced by the method of galvanography; also, a picture printed from such a plate.

f producing by means of electrotyping process (without etching) copperplates which can be printed from in the same manner as engraved plates.

e, an instrument used to strike a line parallel to the straight side of a board, etc. -- Printer's gauge, an instrument to regulate the length of the page. -- Rain gauge, an instrument for measuring the quantity of rain at any given place. -- Salt gauge, or Brine gauge, an instrument or contrivance for indicating th…

A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; esp., the official journal published by the British government, and containing legal and state notices.

y English refugees in Geneva (Geneva, 1560; London, 1576). It was the first English Bible printed in Roman type instead of the ancient black letter, the first which recognized the division into verses, and the first which ommited the Apocrypha. In form it was a small quarto, and soon superseded the large folio of Cranm…

uel. -- German text (Typog.), a character resembling modern German type, used in English printing for ornamental headings, etc., as in the words,

in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; -- distinguished from printed cotton or prints.

ans of voltaic electricity, a raised copy of a drawing is made, so that it can be used to print from.

lored beetle of the family Chrysomelidæ; -- called also golden beetle. -- Gold blocking, printing with gold leaf, as upon a book cover, by means of an engraved block. Knight. -- Gold cloth. See Cloth of gold, under Cloth. -- Gold Coast, a part of the coast of Guinea, in West Africa. -- Gold cradle. (Mining) See Cra…

") written by James de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, in the 13th century, translated and printed by Caxton in 1483, and partially paraphrased by Longfellow in a poem thus entitled. -- Golden marcasite tin. [Obs.] -- Golden mean, the way of wisdom and safety between extremes; sufficiency without excess; moderation. An…

A process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or oxide of zinc is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the surface wherever it is applied. The surface is then carefully rubbed or bru…