Lamp: alternatives and connections

The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steel…

A cephalopod, belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they d…

To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smear…

A thin lamina of gray matter in each cerebral hemisphere of the brain of man.

An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action…

of Dilate

A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resist…

A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively.

A thin lamina of elastic cartilage forming the central portion of the epiglottis.

The surface, usually a shield, upon which bearings are marshaled and displayed. The surface of the escutcheon is called the field, the…

A paling; a hurdle.

Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.

Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.

The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.

A plate made by glyphography, or an impression taken from such a plate.

a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of…

A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.

Capable of being split into laminae or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip.