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Totty. [Obs.] My head is totty of my swink to-night. Chaucer.

Orig., a printing-out process using paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin; now, any such process using silver salts in either collodion or gelatin; also, a print so made.

A kind of autotype.

One of a sect in the primitive church, who celebrated the Lord's Supper with bread and cheese, alleging that the first oblations of men not only of the fruit of the earth, but of their flocks. [Gen. iv. 3, 4.]

A facsimile.

A process resembling "nature printing," by which drawings executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which the printing is done as from copperplate.

The art or process of making autotypes.

A plate or block with a printing surface (usually in relief) obtained from a photograph; also, any one of the many methods of processes by which such a printing surface is obtained.

Of or pertaining to a phototype or phototypy.

Same as Phototypy.

The art or process of producing phototypes.

exemplar; archetype. They will turn their backs on it, like their great precursor and prototype. Burke.

A small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet. Fairholt.

opposing point. -- Carbon tissue, paper coated with gelatine and pigment, used in the autotype process of photography. Abney. -- Gas carbon, a compact variety of carbon obtained as an incrustation on the interior of gas retorts, and used for the manufacture of the carbon rods of pencils for the voltaic, arc, and for…

a plate results from which impressions can be taken with prepared ink. The albertype, phototype, and heliotype are collotypes.

rce); to be indebted or obliged for; as, he owed his wealth to his father; he owed his victoty to his lieutenants. Milton. O deem thy fall not owed to man's decree. Pope.

A combining form from Gr. fw^s, fwto`s, light; as, photography, phototype, photometer.

the first martyr; protomorphic, primitive in form; protoplast, a primordial organism; prototype, protozoan.

ing impressed form; stamp; print; type; typical form; representative; as in stereotype phototype, ferrotype, monotype.