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To make rotten. [Obs.] Well bet is rotten apple out of hoard, Than that it roty all the remenant. Chaucer.

A picture taken on a place of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass.

Like a carrot in color or in taste; -- an epithet given to reddish yellow hair, etc.

A printing process of engraving on a surface of wax spread on a steel plate, for electrotyping.

A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively.

One who electrotypes.

Pertaining to, or effected by means of, electrotypy.

The act or the process of making electrotypes.

The process of producing electrotype plates. See Note under Electrotype, n.

A photographic picture taken on an iron plate by a collodion process; -- familiarly called tintype.

An electrotype plate formed in a mold made by photographing on prepared gelatine, etc.

A copy of a print, writing, etc., made by placing it upon a chemically prepared paper which is acted upon by a gas which permeates the paper of the print, writing, etc.

The hypothetical homogeneous cosmic material of the original universe, supposed to have been differentiated into what are recognized as distinct chemical elements.

Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad- backed; hump- backed.

A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.

To stereotype or electrotype.

A picture obtained by the collodion process; a melanotype or ambrotype.

An electrotype.

on, by which a coating is deposited, on a prepared surface, as in electroplating and electrotyping; galvanoplasty.

Same as Electrotype.