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Pica :: Pica (n.) A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English..

Philogynist :: Philogynist (n.) A lover or friend of women; one who esteems woman as the higher type of humanity; -- opposed to misogynist.

Canon :: Canon (n.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.

Melastomaceous :: Melastomaceous (a.) Belonging to the order of which Melastoma is the type.

Platinotype :: Platinotype (n.) The process by which such pictures are produced.

Italic :: Italic (n.) An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, a., 2.); -- often in the plural; as, the Italics are the author's. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters..

Fingering :: Fingering (n.) The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in playing on a musical instrument, in typewriting, etc..

Chrysotype :: Chrysotype (n.) 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.

Setter :: Setter (n.) One who, or that which, sets; -- used mostly in composition with a noun, as typesetter; or in combination with an adverb, as a setter on (or inciter), a setter up, a setter forth..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form..

Ass :: Ass (n.) A quadruped of the genus Equus (E. asinus), smaller than the horse, and having a peculiarly harsh bray and long ears. The tame or domestic ass is patient, slow, and sure-footed, and has become the type of obstinacy and stupidity. There are several species of wild asses which are swift-footed..

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

Aberrant :: Aberrant (a.) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.

Revert :: Revert (v. i.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type..

Rule :: Rule (a.) A thin plate of metal (usually brass) of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work..

Cicero :: Cicero (n.) Pica type; -- so called by French printers.

Phenol :: Phenol (n.) Any one of the series of hydroxyl derivatives of which phenol proper is the type.

Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To stereotype or electrotype.

Plumbism :: Plumbism (n.) A diseased condition, produced by the absorption of lead, common among workers in this metal or in its compounds, as among painters, typesetters, etc. It is characterized by various symptoms, as lead colic, lead line, and wrist drop. See under Colic, Lead, and Wrist..

Authotype :: Authotype (n.) A type or block containing a facsimile of an autograph.

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