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Lancelet :: Lancelet (n.) A small fishlike animal (Amphioxus lanceolatus), remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. It is the type of the class Leptocardia. See Amphioxus, Leptocardia..

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

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

Rhabdopleura :: Rhabdopleura (n.) A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata.

Homotypal :: Homotypal (a.) Of the same type of structure; pertaining to a homotype; as, homotypal parts..

Plate :: Plate (n.) A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates..

Lactim :: Lactim (n.) One of a series of anhydrides resembling the lactams, but of an imido type; as, isatine is a lactim. Cf. Lactam..

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.

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

Quotation :: Quotation (n.) A piece of hollow type metal, lower than type, and measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth, used in the blank spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc..

Archetype :: Archetype (n.) The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype..

Type :: Type (n.) Such letters or characters, in general, or the whole quantity of them used in printing, spoken of collectively; any number or mass of such letters or characters, however disposed..

Phototype :: Phototype (n.) 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..

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

Astringent :: Astringent (a.) Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue..

Etypical :: Etypical (a.) Diverging from, or lacking conformity to, a type..

Platinotype :: Platinotype (n.) A permanent photographic picture or print in platinum black.

Slug :: Slug (n.) A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, -- used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc..

Homologous :: Homologous (a.) Characterized by homology; belonging to the same type or series; corresponding in composition and properties. See Homology, 3..

Typical :: Typical (a.) Of the nature of a type; representing something by a form, model, or resemblance; emblematic; prefigurative..

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