Word Meanings - IVORYTYPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A picture produced by superposing a very light print, rendered translucent by varnish, and tinted upon the back, upon a stronger print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colors; -- called also hellenotype. Knight.
Related words: (words related to IVORYTYPE)
- KNIGHTLESS
Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser. - CALLOSUM
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - LIGHT
licht, OHG. lioht, Goth. liuhap, Icel. lj, L. lux light, lucere to 1. That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous. Note: Light was regarded formerly - PHOTOGRAPHIC; PHOTOGRAPHICAL
Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera. -- Pho`to*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically - PRODUCIBILITY
The quality or state of being producible. Barrow. - TINTERNELL
A certain old dance. Halliwell. - NATURALIST
1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell. - TINTOMETER
An apparatus for the determination of colors by comparison with arbitrary standards; a colorimeter. - PRINTLESS
Making no imprint. Milton. - NATURAL STEEL
Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore. - SUPERPOSE
To lay upon another in such a manner that all the parts of the one coincide with the parts of the other; as, to superpose one plane figure on another. (more info) 1. To lay upon, as one kind of rock on another. - LIGHTSOME
1. Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon. 2. Gay; airy; cheering; exhilarating. That lightsome affection of joy. Hooker. -- Light"some*ly, adv. -- Light"some*ness, n. Happiness - EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
Effective. B. Jonson. - TINTO
A red Madeira wine, wanting the high aroma of the white sorts, and, when old, resembling tawny port. - PRODUCEMENT
Production. - LIGHTNESS
The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; delicacy; grace. Syn. -- Levity; volatility; instability; inconstancy; unsteadiness; giddiness; flightiness; airiness; gayety; liveliness; agility; - LIGHT-ARMED
Armed with light weapons or accouterments. - KNIGHT BANNERET
A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field - STINTLESS
Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston. - SUPERNATURALNESS
The quality or state of being supernatural. - GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner. - LITHOPHOTOGRAPHY
See PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY - SLIGHTNESS
The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard. - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - UNKNIGHT
To deprive of knighthood. Fuller. - UNEMPIRICALLY
Not empirically; without experiment or experience. - SCALLION
A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc. - DELIGHTING
Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor. - UNIVOCALLY
In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall. - PARABOLICALLY
1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola. - STEREOGRAPHICALLY
In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.