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from The Century Dictionary.

  • To prepare for printing by lithotypy.
  • noun The art of reproducing type-writing print on lithographic stone or aluminium plate.
  • noun An apparatus or machine that combines these operations.
  • noun The print so produced.
  • noun A kind of stereotype plate produced by lithotypy.
  • noun A method of printing from lithographic stone in the same manner as from type, the design on the stone being etched deeply enough to admit of the use of the type-press.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun 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.
  • noun 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.
  • transitive verb To prepare for printing with plates made by the process of lithotypy. See lithotypy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A printing plate used in lithotypography.
  • verb transitive To prepare for printing with plates made by the process of lithotypy.

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