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Lithotype

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Lith´o`type
n.1.An etched stone surface for printing, having the design in relief; also, the process of printing from such a surface, or that which is printed from it.
2.A machine, with a keyboard like that of a typewriter, for making a lithographic transfer sheet. It produces a perforated strip of paper which controls the printing.
v. t.1.To prepare for printing with plates made by the process of lithotypy. See Lithotypy.
[imp. & p. p. Lithotyped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Lithotyping .]


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Here, too, is a curious little work upon the influence of a trade upon the form of the hand, with lithotypes of the hands of slaters, sailors, corkcutters, compositors, weavers, and diamond-polishers.
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