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- Impression - n. - The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.
- Impression - n. - That which is impressed; stamp; mark; indentation; sensible result of an influence exerted from without.
- Impression - n. - That which impresses, or exercises an effect, action, or agency; appearance; phenomenon.
- Impression - n. - Influence or effect on the senses or the intellect hence, interest, concern.
- Impression - n. - An indistinct notion, remembrance, or belief.
- Impression - n. - Impressiveness; emphasis of delivery.
- Impression - n. - The pressure of the type on the paper, or the result of such pressure, as regards its appearance; as, a heavy impression; a clear, or a poor, impression; also, a single copy as the result of printing, or the whole edition printed at a given time.
- Impression - n. - In painting, the first coat of color, as the priming in house painting and the like.
- Impression - n. - A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, or the like.
- Impressionability - n. - The quality of being impressionable.
- Impressionableness - n. - The quality of being impressionable.
- Impressionism - n. - The theory or method of suggesting an effect or impression without elaboration of the details; -- a disignation of a recent fashion in painting and etching.
- Impressionist - n. - One who adheres to the theory or method of impressionism, so called.
- Impressionistic - a. - Pertaining to, or characterized by, impressionism.
- Impressionless - a. - Having the quality of not being impressed or affected; not susceptible.
- Sound - n. - The peceived object occasioned by the impulse or vibration of a material substance affecting the ear; a sensation or perception of the mind received through the ear, and produced by the impulse or vibration of the air or other medium with which the ear is in contact; the effect of an impression made on the organs of hearing by an impulse or vibration of the air caused by a collision of bodies, or by other means; noise; report; as, the sound of a drum; the sound of the human voice; a horrid sound; a charming sound; a sharp, high, or shrill sound.
- Print - n. - Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large print; this line is in print.
- Engraving - n. - An impression from an engraved plate, block of wood, or other material; a print.
- Form - n. - The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
- After-image - n. - The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.
- Xylograph - n. - An engraving on wood, or the impression from such an engraving; a print by xylography.
- Woodbury-type - n. - A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing.
- Phosphene - n. - A luminous impression produced through excitation of the retina by some cause other than the impingement upon it of rays of light, as by pressure upon the eyeball when the lids are closed. Cf. After-image.
- Presentiment - n. - Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding.
- Reprint - v. t. - To renew the impression of.
- Drive - n. - In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.
- Unimuscular - a. - Having only one adductor muscle, and one muscular impression on each valve, as the oyster; monomyarian.
- Squeeze - n. - A facsimile impression taken in some soft substance, as pulp, from an inscription on stone.
- Counterprove - v. t. - To take a counter proof of, or a copy in reverse, by taking an impression directly from the face of an original. See Counter proof, under Counter.
- Glyphograph - n. - A plate made by glyphography, or an impression taken from such a plate.
- Touch - v. t. - To make an impression on; to have effect upon.
- Repeat - n. - That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.).
- Bearer - n. - A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.
- Print - v. t. - To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book.
- Platen - n. - The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.
- Sensible - a. - Hence: Liable to impression from without; easily affected; having nice perception or acute feeling; sensitive; also, readily moved or affected by natural agents; delicate; as, a sensible thermometer.
- Electrotype - n. - A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively.
- Blur - v. t. - To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink.
- Tender - superl. - Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
- Prove - v. t. - To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page.
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