print 
ten, print, write, = Sw. prenta, write German 
letters, = Dan. preule, .print), byapheresis from 
emprinten, enpriuten, impress, imprint: see im- 
print, v. Ct.l&te Of. printer, press. Sec print, 
.] I. trans. 1. To press upon or into (some- 
thing); impress; imprint. 
In that Roche \spnnted the forme of hli Body. 
Maiuicrille, Travel*, p. 62. 
Think, when we talk of bones, that you see them 
Printing their proud hoofs I' the receiving earth. 
Shak., Hen. V., L, Prol., 1. 27 
The mnrdred face Uee printed In the mud. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, li., The Handy-Crafts. 
And vriiit on thy soft cheek a parent's kiss. 
.Byron, rhil.l.- Harold, 111. 116. 
And hill and wood and field did print 
The same sweet forms In either mind. 
Tennyson, In Memorlaui, Ixxlx. 
2. To mark by pressing something upon; leave 
an imprint upon ; as, to print butter. 
On his fiery steed betimes he rode. 
That scarcely print* the turf on which he trod. 
Drydm, Pal. and Arc., 11. 46. 
And little footsteps lightly print the ground. 
I,,,,,,. Elegy (omitted stanza). 
Where olives overhead 
1'riiil the blue sky with twig and leaf. 
Browning, Old Pictures in Florence. 
3. To make or form by pressure or impression 
of any kind; fashion or shape out by stamping, 
indentation, or delineation in general. [Obso- 
lete or archaic in many applications.] 
That god coueiteth nat the coygne that Crist hym-self 
,,,, ,i',.i' Piers Plowman (C), xvii. SO. 
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh, . . . nor 
print any marks upon you. Lev. xix. 28. 
Heaven guide thy pen to print thy sorrows plain. 
Sliak., Tit And., IT. 1. 75. 
Do not study 
To print more wounds (for that were tyranny) 
Upon a heart that is pierc'd through already. 
Beau, and Ft., Knight of Malta, iii. 2. 
Specifically 4. To stamp by direct pressure, 
as from the face of types, plates, or blocks cov- 
ered with ink or pigments; impress with trans- 
ferred characters or delineations by the exer- 
tion of force, as with a press or some other me- 
chanical agency: as, to print a ream of paper; 
to print calico; to print pottery. 
" Ye-ye-yes," sobbed the little boy, rubbing his face very 
hard with the lleggar's Petition in printed calico (a figured 
cotton handkerchief]. Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, iv. 
But as for the cook, and us for that clever and willing 
lass, Maggie well, I've bought each o* them a printed 
cotton gown. W. Black, In Far Lochaber, viii. 
5. To copy by pressure; take an impression or 
impressions from or of. as, to print a form of 
type; to print an engraved plate or block; to 
print a pattern onpaper, or on calico or some 
other fabric. 6. To make a copy or copies of 
by impression; produce by or issue from the 
press; put iuto print, as for publication: as, to 
print a book or a newspaper, an essay or a ser- 
mon; to print a picture. 
In Iwoks, not authors, curious Is my Lord ; . . . 
These Aldus ];rintd, those lui Sueil lias bound. 
/'"/"'. Moral Essays, iv. 136. 
I ... sought a Poet, roosted near the skies, . . . 
Said nothing like his works was ever printed. 
Burn*, Address spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her Benefit 
[Night. 
7. To cause to be printed ; obtain the printing 
or publication of; publish. 
Some said, "John, print lt,"others said, "Not so." 
Some said, "It might do good,"others said, "No." 
Banyan, Pilgrim's Progress, Apology. 
A chiel's amang ye takln* notes. 
An', faith, he'll prent It. 
Buna, Captain Grose's Peregrinations. 
8t. To form letters; write. 
The Digest lesson n that man may lere . . . 
Is playuli printed In Poulis booke. 
llymiuto C>rr7in(1430)(E. E.T. a), p. 114. 
Loo ! sir, this Is a periurye 
To prente vndir penne. York Play*, p. 222. 
9. To form by imitation of printed characters; 
write in the style of print: as, the child has 
learned to print the letters of the alphabet. 
10. To record, describe, or characterize in 
print as. 
My safest way were to print myself a coward, with a 
discovery how I came by my credit, and clap It upon every 
pott. Beau, and Fl., King and No King, ill. 2. 
Men . . . 
Must now be named and printed Heretlcks. 
Hilton, Forcers of Conscience. 
11. In photog. : (a) To make a positive picture 
from (a negative) by contact. (&) To produce, 
as a positive from a negative, by transmitted 
light, as by the agency of a lens in nn enlarg- 
ing-cumera. Printed carpet. See carprt. Printed 
China, printed crockery, porcelain or glased pottery 
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decorated with transfer-printing. Printed goods, call 
coes figured by printing from blocks or rollers Printed 
ware, a term applied to porcelain, quecn'g-ware, etc. , deco- 
rated with printed designs. 
H. inti-iiiin. 1. To use or practise the art of 
taking impressions in a press. 2. To produce 
books or any form of printed work by means of 
a press; specifically, to publish books or writ- 
ings. 
Like Lee or Budgell. I will rhyme and print. 
Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. 1. 100. 
3. To form imitations of printed characters; 
write in the style of print: as, the child can 
print, but has not learned to write yet. 
print (print), . [< ME. 'print, prynt, printe, 
prente, preente, preynte (= MD. print, D. prent, 
print = MLG. prente = Dan. prent), <. OF. 
preinte, prainte, impression, print, by apheresis 
from empreinte, impression, print: see imprint, 
n. Cf. print, i'.] 1. A mark made by impres- 
sion ; any line, character, figure, or indentation 
made by the pressure of one body or thing on an- 
other; hence, figuratively, a mark, vestige, or 
impression of any kind; a stamp. 
Your yeen bathe sette the prynt which that I feele 
Withynne myne herte. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Kurnivall), p. 69. 
printing 
(6) In stock : said of a book of which copies can be had of 
the publisher. Compare out of print, (ct) In a formal 
method ; with exactness ; in a precise and perfect man- 
ner ; to perfection. 
P. jun. Fits my ruff well? 
Lin. la print. 
B. Jonson, Staple of News, L 1. 
He must speak in print, walk in print, eat and drink in 
print. Burton, Anat. of XI el. , p. 530. (Latham.) 
Jeypore print, a square of cotton cloth printed with au 
elaborate design in colors from small separate blocks. 
These squares are used as hangings and also for garments ; 
they are of different sizes, sometimes as much asSorOfeet 
square. Mezzotint print, in pliotuij. See tneaotint. 
Out Ol print, no longer to stock : said of a book of which 
copies can no longer be supplied by its publisher. Solar 
print. See tolar. 
print (print), a. [< print, n.] Clear and bright. 
Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
print-broker (print'bro'ker), w. A broker in 
printed goods orfigured calico. [Local, Eng.] 
These are the print-broken, who sell " gown-pieces " to 
the hawkers or street-traders. 
Maylicic, London Labour and London Poor, I. 414. 
print-cloth (print'kloth), n. Cotton cloth woven 
and finished suitably for printing. 
Cloth of the kind called print-doOi, . . . which when 
printed becomes calico. Pop. Sei. Mo., XXVIII. 480. 
Except I shall ... put my finger into the print of the printMJUttOT (urint'kut'er), w. A plain or a me 
nails, ... I will not believe. John xx. 26. chanical knife, 8U( 
nails. 
As when a seal in wax impression makes, 
The print therein, but not Itself, it leaves. 
Sir J. Darie, Immortal, of Soul, xllL 
Sooner or later I too may passively take the print 
Of the golden age. Tennyson, Maud, 1. 
2. Printed matter for reading; the state of be- 
ing printed ; character or style of printing, or 
size of the printed letters: as, to put a work 
iutoj>mi<; clear or blurred print. 
Item, a Boke in preente off the Pleye off the [Chess). 
Pastan tetters, III. 800. 
The small Geneva print referred to, we apprehend, was 
the type used in the common copies of the Geneva trans- 
lation of the Bible. Crailc. 
A literary man with a wooden leg and all print is 
open to him. Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, I. v. 
There has been established such an intimate association 
l>etween truth and print upon paper that much of the rev- 
erence given to the one gathers round the other. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Psychol., f 389. 
3t. An imprint; an edition. 
When these two vryittes (there were of them bothe 
a)>onte v. thousand Itokis printed) were al soulde more 
then a twelue mnneth agoo |t. e., before February, 1534] 
Tind[ale) was pricked forthe to take the testament in 
hande to print it and correcke it. 
Georye Joy, Apology to Tyndale (1535). (Arber.) 
4. A printed publication, more especially a 
newspaper or other periodical. 
What I have known 
Shall be as public as n print. 
Beau, and Ft., Philaster, ii. 4. 
The prints, about three days after, were filled with the 
same terms. Addison. 
5. A printed picture or design ; an impression 
from engraved wood or metal taken in ink or 
other colored medium upon paper or any other 
suitable material. 
That Bible, bought by sixpence weekly saved, 
Has choicest pnnts by famous hands engraved. 
Crabbe, Works, I. 38. 
Conrad ab Uffenbach, a learned Gennan, recreated his 
mind, after severe studies, with a collection of prints of 
eminent persons, methodically arranged. 
7. D' Israeli, Curios, of Lit., I. 91. 
6. Printed calico; a piece or length of cotton 
cloth stamped with designs : as, striped, black, 
colored, or figured prints. 7. () An impres- 
sion of something having comparatively slight 
relief, such as to reproduce in reverse all the 
parts of the original. Hence, by extension 
(ft) A cast or impression from such a first im- 
pression, which reproduces exactly the original. 
8. A pattern or device produced by stamping, 
as upon the surface of a piece of plate; hence, 
apparently by extension, the boss at the bot- 
tom of mazers and other vessels of the middle 
ages or later times, upon which are engraved or 
otherwise represented the arms of the owner 
or donor, or some other device. 9. Something 
bearing a figure or design to be impressed by 
stamping; a figured stamp : as, a biitt>r-/>rin?. 
Specifically (a) A mold for coin, llalliurll. (ft) In iron- 
working, a swage ; a mold sunk in metal from which an 
Impression is taken. 
10. Inphotog., a positive picture made from a 
negative Cotton prints. See eo(toi. In print, 
(a) In a printed form : Issued from the press; published ; 
also. In a printed and published work. 
I love t ballad in print o' life, for then we are sore they 
are true. Shot., W. T., IT. 4. 204. 
Margaret Fuller, less attractive in print than In conver- 
sation, did her pail as a contributor as well as editor. 
0. W. lluiinet, Emerson, v. 
such as a small knife-edged 
wheel mounted in a handle, for cutting photo- 
graphic prints to shape and size. The prints 
are usually cut on a piece of glass, by means of 
a rule or a caliber of glass of the required size, 
printer (prin'ter), . 1. One who prints, im- 
presses, or stamps by impression ; a person 
whose business it is to produce copies or 
superficial transfers of anything by pressure, 
as in a press or the like, or by the agency of 
light on a sensitized surface, as in photography: 
usually distinguished, when not specific (def. 
'2), by an adjunct: as, a lithograpliic printer; 
a plate-printer; a calico-printer. 2. A person 
who practises or carries on the business of 
typographical printing; one who understands 
the mechanical process of producing printed 
matter for reading; specifically, as used of 
workmen, a compositor, or one who manipu- 
lates the types. 3. One who sells what he 
prints or procures the printing of; hence, a 
publisher of books or of a periodical. The early 
printers were generally also publishers, producing works 
on their own account ; and the word printer long retained 
this extended meaning. Thus, most of the letters of Junlus 
were addressed "TotheP/tji/crof the Public Advertiser" 
the printer, Woodfall, being iU proprietor, editor, and 
publisher. [Now nearly obsolete.] 
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the 
printers have lost Fidler, Books. 
4. A telegraphic instrument which makes rec- 
ords in printed characters; a telegraphic print- 
ing instrument. 
Edison's various devices In his old stock printer have 
formed the basis of all later variations on that sort of In- 
strument. Harper's Mag., LXXX. 432. 
Mechanical printer, a type-writer. Motor printer. 
See motor. Printers' Bible a Bible printed prior to 
1702, mentioned by Cotton Mather as containing the 
word printen In place of princes In Ps. cxlx. 161 :" Print- 
ers have persecuted me without a cause." Printer's 
deviL See deril. Printer's flower, an ornamental de- 
sign at the end of a printed book ; a tail-piece. Printer's 
imprint. Seeimprint, 2. Printers' Ink. Seeprinting- 
int. Printer's mark, an engraved device, sometimes 
a monogram or a rebus, used by printers as a trade-mark. 
Printers' ream, or printiiuj ream, the ordinary 
ream of 480 sheets, to which 1J quires are added as an al* 
lowance for waste in printing, making 516 sheets: some- 
times, but improperly, called a perfect ream. I Eng.] 
Printers' roller. See inking-nller. Printers' varnish, 
a varniph made of nut- or linsi r<l->il. black resin, and dry 
brown soap. Public printer, an official of the I'nlted 
States government who has charge of the government 
n' iting-offlce at Washington. =Syn. Cmnpositor, Printer. 
ore the introduction of power-presses both pressmen 
and compositors were called printers; but these classes 
are now nearly always distinct, and the term printer more 
especially, but leas appropriately, designates the latter. 
printery (prin'ter-i), .; pi. printeriex (-iz). 
[< prin t + -cry.] 1. An establishment for the 
printing of calico or the like. 2. A printing- 
office. [Hare.] 
print-field (print'feld), . A print-works; an 
establishment for printing and bleaching cali- 
coes. 
print-holder (print'hol'der), . 1. A small 
frame, standing like an easel by means of a sup- 
port at the back, used to hold a photograph or an 
engraving. 2. In pliutiii/., any device for hold- 
ing a print flat, or in a aenred position. 
printing (priii'tin^i. . [VertNU n. of print, r.] 
1 . Ill general, the art or process of making copies 
or superficial transfers by imprri-Moii : the re- 
production of designs, characters, etc., on an 
imprri-Ml'l>- Mirface by means of an ink or a pig- 
