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Bromize :: Bromize (v. t.) To prepare or treat with bromine; as, to bromize a silvered plate..

Tile :: Tile (n.) A plate of metal used for roofing.

Woodbury-type :: Woodbury-type (n.) A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing..

Roulette :: Roulette (n.) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots.

Ichthyodorulite :: Ichthyodorulite (n.) One of the spiny plates foundon the back and tail of certain skates.

Silver :: Silver (n.) A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc. Silver is one of the noble metals, so-called, not being easily oxidized, and is used for coin, jewelry, plate, and a great variety of articles. Symbol Ag (Argentum). Atomic weight 107.7. Specific gravity 10.5..

Soleplate :: Soleplate (n.) The plate forming the back of a waterwheel bucket.

Camera Obscura :: Camera obscura () An apparatus in which the image of an external object or objects is, by means of lenses, thrown upon a sensitized plate or surface placed at the back of an extensible darkened box or chamber variously modified; -- commonly called simply the camera..

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..

Mail :: Mail (n.) Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc..

Glyphograph :: Glyphograph (n.) A plate made by glyphography, or an impression taken from such a plate..

Table :: Table (n.) A circular plate of crown glass.

Chiton :: Chiton (n.) One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora..

Ganoidei :: Ganoidei (n. pl.) One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasma. Many of the species are covered with bony plates, or with ganoid scales; others have cycloid scales..

Slide :: Slide (n.) A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope..

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal..

Punch :: Punch (n.) A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like; a die..

Etching :: Etching (v. t.) An impression on paper, parchment, or other material, taken in ink from an etched plate..

Mailed :: Mailed (a.) Protected by an external coat, or covering, of scales or plates..

Hyopastron :: Hyopastron (n.) The second lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; -- called also hyosternum.

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