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m. The faith they have in tennis, and tall stockings, Short blistered breeches, and those types of travel. Shak.

One who, or that which, sets type; a compositor; a machine for setting type.

The act or art of setting type.

To write with a typewriter. [Recent]

An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper.

The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.

A picture printed from a kind of gelatine plate produced by means of a photographic negative.

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.

That of which the type pattern or representation; that which is represented by the type or symbol.

a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed. The House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative assemblies which now meet. Macaulay. Types and shadows of that glorious archetype that was to come into the world. South.

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.

A type or block containing a facsimile of an autograph. Knight.

A facsimile.

ing photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot.

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

One of a number of processes by which an impression from an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an ordinary printing press.

A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.

A sheet printed in colors by any process, as a chromolithograph. See Chromolithograph.

A photographic picture taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold. Abney.