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understood, moreover, . . . that the group are not arbitrary cuts, but natural groups or types. Dana.

A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, differing from a corymb chiefly in the order of the opening of the blossoms.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a large family of plants of which the sedge is the type.

one dabs; hence, a pad or other device used by printers, engravers, etc., as for dabbing type or engraved plates with ink.

Pertaining to Daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerreotype.

ll off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.

of any class of animals or plants or any particular or organs; hereditary degradation of type.

A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state.

To degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or that genus or group of genera.

Erase; remove; -- a direction to cancel something which has been put in type; usually expressed by a peculiar form of d, thus: .

ke web of skin between the fore and hind legs, of which the colugo (Galeopithecus) is the type. See Colugo.

The smallest kind of type in English printing, except that called brilliant, which is seldom seen.

A compound of a binary type containing two cyanogen groups or radicals; -- called also bicyanide.

A type of internal-combustion engine in which the air drawn in by the suction stroke is so highly compressed that the heat generated ignites the fuel (usually crude oil), the fuel being automatically sprayed into the cylinder under pressure. The Diesel engine has a very high thermal efficiency.

A compound of a binary type containing two atoms of iodine; -- called also biniodide.

To make conspicuous by large or prominent type.

Set with lines of prominent type interspersed, to catch the eye.

To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.

The sorting of types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.

A machine for distributing type.