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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The art or process of making a kind of hard stereotype plate, by pressing into a mould, taken from a page of type or other matter, a mixture of shellac and fine sand, together with a little tar and linseed oil, all in a heated state. uncountable

Etymology

From lithotype + -y.

Related phrases

linseed oil

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