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Webster 1913 Edition


Woodbury-type

Wood′bur-y-typeˊ

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Noun.
[After the name of the inventor, W.
Woodbury
.]
1.
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.
2.
A print from such a plate.