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Palaeotype :: Palaeotype (n.) A system of representing all spoken sounds by means of the printing types in common use.

Monotype :: Monotype (a.) Alt. of Monotypi.

Antitypical :: Antitypical (a.) Of or pertaining to an antitype; explaining the type.

Melainotype :: Melainotype (n.) See Melanotype.

Tetraonid :: Tetraonid (n.) A bird belonging to the tribe of which the genus Tetrao is the type, as the grouse, partridge, quail, and the like. Used also adjectively..

Daguerreian :: Daguerreian (a.) Pertaining to Daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerreotype..

Meliaceous :: Meliaceous (a.) Pertaining to a natural order (Meliacae) of plants of which the genus Melia is the type. It includes the mahogany and the Spanish cedar.

Frame :: Frame (n.) A stand to support the type cases for use by the compositor.

Veneracea :: Veneracea (n. pl.) An extensive tribe of bivalve mollusks of which the genus Venus is the type. The shells are usually oval, or somewhat heartshaped, with a conspicuous lunule. See Venus..

Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To place (new type) properly in the cases.

Stereotypery :: Stereotypery (n.) The art, process, or employment of making stereotype plates..

Saponin :: Saponin (n.) A poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of soapwort (Saponaria), in the bark of soap bark (Quillaia), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphous powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anaesthesia. Formerly called also struthiin, quillaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type..

Sport :: Sport (v. i.) To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport, n., 6..

Ostracean :: Ostracean (n.) Any one of a family of bivalves, of which the oyster is the type..

Furniture :: Furniture (v. t.) Pieces of wood or metal of a lesser height than the type, placed around the pages or other matter in a form, and, with the quoins, serving to secure the form in its place in the chase..

Calotype :: Calotype (n.) A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot..

Typesetter :: Typesetter (n.) One who, or that which, sets type; a compositor; a machine for setting type..

Catallacta :: Catallacta (n. pl.) A division of Protozoa, of which Magosphaera is the type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies..

Stereotype :: Stereotype (v. t.) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible..

"archetypally :: Archetypally (adv.) With reference to the archetype; originally. Parts archetypally distinct..

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