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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.

Cap :: Cap (n.) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts; as, the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate..

Backed :: Backed (a.) Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad-backed; hump-backed..

Tulle :: Tulle (n.) In plate armor, a suspended plate in from of the thigh. See Illust. of Tasses..

Foliaceous :: Foliaceous (a.) Consisting of leaves or thin laminae; having the form of a leaf or plate; as, foliaceous spar..

Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A small ornamental plate, usually crescent-shaped, and of gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers in full uniform in some modern armies..

Chape :: Chape (n.) The metal plate or tip which protects the end of a scabbard, belt, etc..

Dabber :: Dabber (n.) That with which one dabs; hence, a pad or other device used by printers, engravers, etc., as for dabbing type or engraved plates with ink..

Gymnodont :: Gymnodont (n.) One of a group of plectognath fishes (Gymnodontes), having the teeth and jaws consolidated into one or two bony plates, on each jaw, as the diodonts and tetradonts. See Bur fish, Globefish, Diodon..

Coccosteus :: Coccosteus (n.) An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles..

Saw :: Saw (n.) An instrument for cutting or dividing substances, as wood, iron, etc., consisting of a thin blade, or plate, of steel, with a series of sharp teeth on the edge, which remove successive portions of the material by cutting and tearing..

Entoplastron :: Entoplastron (n.) The median plate of the plastron of turtles; -- called also entosternum.

Credence :: Credence (n.) A cupboard, sideboard, or cabinet, particularly one intended for the display of rich vessels or plate, and consisting chiefly of open shelves for that purpose..

Steik :: Stegosaurus (n.) A genus of large Jurassic dinosaurs remarkable for a powerful dermal armature of plates and spines.

Rebiting :: Rebiting (n.) The act or process of deepening worn lines in an etched plate by submitting it again to the action of acid.

Melanotype :: Melanotype (n.) A positive picture produced with sensitized collodion on a smooth surface of black varnish, coating a thin plate of iron; also, the process of making such a picture..

Bare :: Bare (n.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather..

Contemplator :: Contemplator (n.) One who contemplates.

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

Plaque :: Plaque (n.) Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch..

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