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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..

Electrotype :: Electrotype (v. t.) To make facsimile plates of by the electrotype process; as, to electrotype a page of type, a book, etc. See Electrotype, n..

Platen :: Platen (n.) The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.

Metallography :: Metallography (n.) A substitute for lithography, in which metallic plates are used instead of stone..

Drosometer :: Drosometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the quantity of dew on the surface of a body in the open air. It consists of a balance, having a plate at one end to receive the dew, and at the other a weight protected from the deposit of dew..

Plateful :: Plateful (n.) Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.

Strap :: Strap (n.) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine..

Scutate :: Scutate (a.) Protected or covered by bony or horny plates, or large scales..

Implated :: Implated (imp. & p. p.) of Implat.

Web :: Web (n.) A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead..

Explate :: Explate (v. t.) To explain; to unfold.

Seraphine :: Seraphine (n.) A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument..

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.

Plate :: Plate (n.) That part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc..

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..

Patina :: Patina (n.) A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella.

Cancelli :: Cancelli (v. t.) The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities..

Platter :: Platter (n.) A large plate or shallow dish on which meat or other food is brought to the table.

Disk :: Disk (n.) A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper..

Bird''s-mouth :: Bird's-mouth (n.) An interior angle or notch cut across a piece of timber, for the reception of the edge of another, as that in a rafter to be laid on a plate; -- commonly called crow's-foot in the United States..

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