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Presswork :: Presswork (n.) The art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done..

Speculate :: Speculate (v. i.) To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events..

Madreporite :: Madreporite (n.) The madreporic plate of echinoderms.

Depolarizer :: Depolarizer (n.) A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery..

Stereotype :: Stereotype (v. t.) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible..

Cerography :: Cerography (n.) A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax.

Excise :: Excise (n.) In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system..

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

Depolarize :: Depolarize (v. t.) To free from polarization, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery..

Plate :: Plate (n.) Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold..

Diodon :: Diodon (n.) A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs..

Photographometer :: Photographometer (n.) An instrument for determining the sensibility of the plates employed in photographic processes to luminous rays.

Engraving :: Engraving (n.) That which is engraved; an engraved plate.

Abacinate :: Abacinate (v. t.) To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes.

Cat :: Cat (n.) A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position in is placed..

Wire :: Wire (n.) A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel..

Squill :: Squilgee (n.) Formerly, a small swab for drying a vessel's deck; now, a kind of scraper having a blade or edge of rubber or of leather, -- used for removing superfluous, water or other liquids, as from a vessel's deck after washing, from window panes, photographer's plates, etc..

Tinned :: Tinned (a.) Covered, or plated, with tin; as, a tinned roof; tinned iron..

Fungia :: Fungia (n.) A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter..

Turret :: Turret (n.) A revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates, within which cannon are mounted. Turrets are used on vessels of war and on land..

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