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Nail :: Nail (n.) The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds..

Stereotypist :: Stereotypic (a.) Of or pertaining to stereotype, or stereotype plates..

Platefuls :: Platefuls (pl. ) of Platefu.

Gizzard :: Gizzard (n.) A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks..

Intercrural :: Intercrural (a.) Between crura; -- applied especially to the interneural plates in the vertebral column of many cartilaginous fishes.

Clypeate :: Clypeate (a.) Furnished with a shield, or a protective plate or shell..

Dial :: Dial (n.) An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. The style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical..

Beaufet :: Beaufet (n.) A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet..

Lames :: Lames (n. pl.) Small steel plates combined together so as to slide one upon the other and form a piece of armor.

Stereotyped :: Stereotyped (a.) Formed into, or printed from, stereotype plates..

Frog :: Frog (n.) A supporting plate having raised ribs that form continuations of the rails, to guide the wheels where one track branches from another or crosses it..

Breastplate :: Breastplate (n.) A strap that runs across a horse's breast.

Occiput :: Occiput (n.) A plate which forms the back part of the head of insects.

Ground :: Ground (v. t.) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching (see Ground, n., 5); or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament..

Laminate :: Laminate (v. t.) To form, as metal, into a thin plate, as by rolling..

Loricate :: Loricate (v.) Covered with a shell or exterior made of plates somewhat like a coat of mail, as in the armadillo..

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.

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..

Blacks :: Blacks (n. pl.) The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press..

Drawplate :: Drawplate (n.) A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated..

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