Word Meanings - CYCLOSTYLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred

Additional info about word: CYCLOSTYLE

A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller.

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• MANIFOLD
  1. Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated. O Lord, how manifold are thy works! Ps. civ. 24. I know your manifold transgressions. Amos v. 12. 2. Exhibited at divers times or in various ways; -- used to qualify
• DRAWER
  An under-garment worn on the lower limbs. Chest of drawers. See under Chest. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, draws; as: One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom. Shak. One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• WRITING
  1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
• DRAW
  1. The act of drawing; draught. 2. A lot or chance to be drawn. 3. A drawn game or battle, etc. 4. That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under Drawbridge.
• DRAWCANSIR
  A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully. The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe. Addison.
• CONVERTIBILITY
  The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
• DRAW-CUT
  A single cut with a knife.
• STYLET
  A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape
• DRAWEE
  The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• WRITATIVE
  Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope.
• DRAWROD
  A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.
• DRAWBAR
  An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. A bar of iron with an eye at each end,
• DRAWLINK
  See
• WHEELBIRD
  The European goatsucker.
• WRITER
  1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
• CONVERTIBLY
  In a convertible manner.
• DRAWGLOVES
  An old game, played by holding up the fingers. Herrick.
• CATHERINE WHEEL
  See WINDOW (more info) Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her
• ARAEOSTYLE
  See INTERCOLUMNIATION
• CYCLOSTYLE
  A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
• REWRITE
  To write again. Young.
• FOUR-WHEELER
  A vehicle having four wheels.
• TYPEWRITING
  The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• INCONVERTED
  Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.
• SURSTYLE
  To surname.
• AMPHIPROSTYLE
  Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n.
• PELTON WHEEL
  A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.