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Webster 1913 Edition
Lithography
Li-thog′ra-phy
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
lithographie
.] 1.
The art or process of putting designs or writing, with a greasy material, on stone, and of producing printed impressions therefrom. The process depends, in the main, upon the antipathy between grease and water, which prevents a printing ink containing oil from adhering to wetted parts of the stone not covered by the design. See
Lithographic limestone
, under Lithographic
. Webster 1828 Edition
Lithography
LITHOG'RAPHY
,Noun.
The art of engraving, or of tracing letters, figures or other designs on stone, and of transferring them to paper by impression; an art recently invented by Mr. Sennefelder of Munich, in Bavaria.