Type sb.¹

Also 6–7 tipe. [ad. F. type (16th c. in Littré) or L. typus, a. Gr. τύπος impression, figure, type, f. the root of τύπτειν to beat, strike.]

  1.  That by which something is symbolized or figured; anything having a symbolical signification; a symbol, emblem; spec. in Theol. a person, object, or event of Old Testament history, prefiguring some person or thing revealed in the new dispensation; correl. to antitype. In (the) type, in symbolic representation.

c. 1470.  Henryson, Mor. Fab. (S.T.S.), 579. Suppose this be ane Fabill, And ouerheillit with typis figurall.

1590.  ‘Hobynoll,’ To Learned Sheph., v., in Spenser’s F. Q. (Pref. Verses). That fare Ilands right, Which thou dost vayle in Type of Faery land, Elizas blessed field, that Albion hight.

1607.  Hieron, Wks., I. 104. The people of Israel were a tipe of Gods people: Canaan a tipe of heauen.

1654.  Jer. Taylor, Real Pres., v. 103. He offered wine not water in the type … of his bloud.

1706.  Prior, Ode to Queen, xxxiv. The British Rose, Type of sweet Rule, and gentle Majesty.

1781.  Fletcher, Lett., Wks. 1795, VII. 236. [Marriage] the most perfect type of our Lords union with his church.

1829.  [H. B. Henderson], The Bengallee, 182.

1851.  Kingsley, in Life (1878), I. 255. It is only in proportion as we appreciate and understand the types that we can understand the anti-types.

1863.  Mary Howitt, F. Bremer’s Greece, II. xii. 29. A river is always the type of human life.

1875.  Manning, Mission H. Ghost, i. 15. Ceremonial actions, and washings, and purifications, which were the types and shadows of things to come.

  b.  An imperfect symbol or anticipation of something. nonce-use.

1754.  Foote, Knights, I. Wks. 1799, I. 62. The very abstract of penury! Sir John Cutler, with his transmigrated stockings, was but a type of him.

  † 2.  A figure or picture of something; a representation; an image or imitation. Obs. rare.

1559.  W. Cunningham, Cosmogr. Glasse, 10. This Type do represent the world. Ibid., 156. Wherfore behold the tipe before placed.

1572.  Gascoigne, Herbs, Voy. into Holland, 7. I must endite … A tipe of heauen, a liuely hew of hell.

1774.  J. Bryant, Mythol., II. 445. Lunar amulets, or types of the Ark in the form of a crescent.

  b.  Numism. The figure on either side of a coin or medal.

1785.  Holcroft, trans. Mme. de Genlis’ Tales Castle (ed. 2), I. Notes 292. On the two sides … of a medal … are distinguished the type, and the inscription or legend. The type, or device, is the figure represented.

1853.  Humphreys, Coin-coll. Man., vi. 61. The crab, being perhaps at an early period made sacred to the river deity, became the principal type of the money of this city [Agrigentum].

1904.  W. M. Ramsay, Lett. Seven Churches, xix. 262. Homer is one of the most frequent types on coins of the city.

  3.  A distinguishing mark or sign; a stamp. rare.

1593.  Shaks., 3 Hen. VI., I. iv. 121. Thy Father beares the type of King of Naples. Ibid. (1613), Hen. VIII., I. iii. 31. Tennis and tall Stockings, Short blistred Breeches, and those types of Trauell.

1692.  Prior, Ode Imit. Horace, viii. 28. Heav’n as plainly pointed out the King, As when he at the Altar stood, In all his Types and Robes of Powr.

1862.  Burton, Bk. Hunter (1863), 11. The types of a really hospitable country house were an anker of whisky always on the spigot, a caldron ever on the bubble with boiling water. Ibid., 44. All these things were the types of an intellectual vitality.

  4.  Path. The characteristic form of a fever; esp. the character of an intermittent fever as determined by its period. Cf. type-fever in 10. [So L. typus.] Obs. or merged in 5.

1601.  Holland, Pliny, XXII. xiv. II. 122. The fever also, Of what type or kind it is. Ibid., XXVI. xi. 260. Some are wont to give of Cinque foile three leaves in a Tertian, and foure in a Quartane, and so rise to more according to the period or type of the rest.

1776.  W. Cullen, First Lines Pract. Physic, § 30. With respect to the form, or Type, of fevers.

1818–20.  J. Thompson, Cullen’s Nosol. Method. (ed. 3), 187. [Fever] with intermission, varying (a) in type or period.

1858.  Copland, Dict. Pract. Med., I. 937. The type of masked ague is generally quotidian.

  5.  The general form, structure, or character distinguishing a particular kind, group, or class of beings or objects; hence transf. a pattern or model after which something is made.

1843.  Mill, Logic, IV. ii. § 3 (1856), II. 192. When we … see a creature resembling an animal, we compare it with our general conception of an animal; and if it agrees with that general conception, we include it in the class. The conception becomes the type of comparison.

1857.  Maurice, Ep. St. John, i. 3. The type upon which the whole was constructed.

1860.  Motley, Netherl. (1868), I. i. 15. His face had lost all resemblance to the type of his heroic family.

1864.  Soc. Science Rev., 3. Diseases are founded on types like animals, plants, systems of worlds [etc.].

1874.  Blackie, Self-Cult., 4. The fundamental unity of type which the Divine reason has imposed on all things.

1874.  Parker, Goth. Archit., I. i. 1. The original type of all Christian churches is universally acknowledged to have been the Roman Basilica.

1877.  Roberts, Handbk. Med. (ed. 3), I. 12. A few diseases exhibit well-marked types.

1880.  Mem. J. Legge, vi. 76. Every creature has a type, a peculiar characier of its own.

  b.  Ch. Hist. [Gr. τύπος τῆς πίστεως type of the faith.] An edict of the Emperor Constans II., promulgated A.D. 648, prohibiting further discussion of the Monothelite controversy.

1727–41.  Chambers, Cycl., Type, τυπος,… a name given to an edict of the Emperor Constans II. … It had the name type, as being a kind of formulary of faith.

1854.  Milman, Lat. Chr., IV. vi. (1864,) II. 322. The Ecthesis of Heraclius was replaced by the Type of Constans. The Type … aspired to silence by authority this interminable dispute.

1902.  H. K. Mann, Lives Popes, I. I. 381–2. Paul caused the Emperor Constans to issue the ‘Type.’… The ‘Type’ ordered the Ecthesis to be taken down, and forbade anyone in future to speak of either one or two wills or operations in Our Lord.

  6.  A kind, class, or order as distinguished by a particular character.

1854.  Brewster, More Worlds, iv. 73. On a planet more magnificent than ours, may there not be a type of reason of which the intellect of Newton is the lowest degree?

1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xx. IV. 531. The Queen was sinking under small pox of the most malignant type.

1879.  M. Arnold, Ess., Porro unum est necess., 152. The instruction in both is of the same type.

1888.  Bryce, Amer. Commw., II. xlviii. 220. Three types of rural local government are discernible in America.

1897.  D. W. Forest, Christ of Hist. & Exp., i. 31. It is a different type of moral character: another order of humanity.

1898.  Jrnl. Sch. Geog. (U.S.), Oct., 306. The dominant weather type was clear, with light southerly winds and temperatures between 50° and 55°. This type was interrupted by two spells of cloudy weather, with northerly winds.

  7.  transf. A person or thing that exhibits the characteristic qualities of a class; a representative specimen; a typical example or instance.

1842.  Prichard, Nat. Hist. Man (ed. 2), 333. The Tahitians are considered by Lesson as the type of the whole Polynesian race.

a. 1854.  Reed, Lect. Brit. Poets, v. (1857), 172. Shakspeare may be contemplated as the type of modern intellect and the representative of the European mind.

1865.  Dickens, Mut. Fr., III. viii. It is a type of many.

1873.  Ruskin, Fors Clav., xxxiv. (1896), II. 236. Sir Roger de Coverley is a character, as well as a type.

  b.  spec. A person or thing that exemplifies the ideal qualities or characteristics of a kind or order; a perfect example or specimen of something; a model, pattern, exemplar.

1847.  Emerson, Repr. Men, Goethe, Wks. (Bohn), I. 392. He is the type of culture.

a. 1853.  Robertson, Lect., Wordsw., 228. Arnold of Rugby is the type of English action; Wordsworth is the type of English thought.

1858.  J. H. Newman, Hist. Sk. (1873), III. II. i. 221. Plato is the very type of soaring philosophy.

  8.  Technical uses from senses 5–7.

  a.  Nat. Hist., etc. A certain general plan of structure characterizing a group of animals, plants, etc.; hence transf. a group or division of animals, etc., having a common form or structure.

1850.  McCosh, Div. Govt., II. ii. (ed. 2), 162. In the organic kingdoms, there is an all-pervading system of types: there is a type for every particular species of plant and animal; a type for every leaf and every limb.

1850.  Tennyson, In Mem., lv. So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life.

1867.  Dk. Argyll, Reign Law, iv. 215. The adaptability of the one Vertebrate Type to the … variety of Life to which it serves as … a home.

1872.  Oliver, Elem. Bot., II. 122. You must try to refer to its type every flowering plant you meet with.

1877.  Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., i. 49. Such types or common plans as those of the Arthropoda, the Annelida, the Mollusca [etc.].

1878.  Gurney, Crystallogr., 30. By the type of symmetry of a crystal we mean the number and arrangement of its symmetral planes.

1892.  Westcott, Gospel of Life, 10. The product of any particular seed is fixed within the limits of a type.

  b.  Nat. Hist. A species or genus that most perfectly exhibits the essential characters of its family or group, and from which the family or group is (usually) named; an individual embodying all the distinctive characteristics of a species, etc.

1840.  Whewell, Philos. Induct. Sci., VIII. ii. I. 476. A Type is an example of any class, for instance, a species of a genus, which is considered as eminently possessing the characters of the class.

1851.  Woodward, Mollusca, I. 61. The type of each genus should be that species in which the characters of its group are best exhibited, and most evenly balanced.

1858.  Mayne, Expos. Lex., Salicornicus,… a tribe of the Chenopodeæ established by C. A. Meyer, having the Salicornia for their type.

  c.  Chem. A simple compound taken as representing the structure of more complex compounds.

1852.  Watts, trans. Gmelin’s Handbk. Chem., VII. 15. Dumas’ Theory of Substitution and of Types.

1857.  Miller, Elem. Chem. (1862), III. 48. Water, hydrochloric, and hydrosulphuric acid are, therefore, the patterns or types upon which these several bodies are formed.

1868.  Watts, Dict. Chem., V. 926. Bodies analogous in constitution, and exhibiting analogous reactions, are said to belong to the same type…. In a wider sense, the formula HCl may be taken as the type of chlorides, bromides, iodides, fluorides, and cyanides.

  d.  Math. (See quots.)

1891.  Cent. Dict., Type 12. In math., a succession of symbols susceptible of + and – signs.

1911.  Webster, Type … 6, the simplest of the forms equivalent with respect to a group.

  9.  A small rectangular block, usually of metal or wood, having on its upper end a raised letter, figure, or other character, for use in printing. In types, in type (see b). Also fig.

1713.  J. Watson, Hist. Art Printing, 54. Christopher Plantin … printed … that fine Bible … whose Types were casten and made at Paris.

1727–41.  Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Printing, The printing letters, characters, or types, as they are sometimes called.

1751.  Berkeley, Lett. to Prior, 30 March, Wks. 1871, IV. 327. They are going to print … two editions … of Plato’s works, in most magnificent types.

1799.  Monthly Rev., XXX. 290. A method of printing maps and charts of any size by means of moveable types.

1829.  Macaulay, Westm. Reviewer’s Def. Mill (ad fin.). The preceding article was written, and was actually in types, when [etc.].

1849.  Ruskin, Sev. Lamps, v. § 83. The types which once had the die of thought struck fresh upon them.

1880.  Vern. Lee, Stud. Italy, III. ii. 102. Musical types bad … been invented by an Italian.

  b.  sing. Types collectively; letter. In type, set up ready for printing.

1778.  V. Knox, Ess., xxxviii. 305. To trace the art in its gradual progress from the wooden and immoveable letter to the moveable and metal type.

1784.  J. Belknap, in B. Papers (1877), II. 179. I believe some brethren of the type are offended at it.

1837.  Sir F. Palgrave, Merch. & Friar, Ded. (1844), 4. The work … had been kept in type for nearly a twelvemonth.

1852.  Dickens, Lett. (1880), I. 291. This story goes straightway into type.

1869.  Tyndall, Notes Lect. Light, § 71. Compositors arrange their type in this backward fashion, the type being reversed by the process of printing.

1882.  J. Southward, Pract. Print. (1884), 9. A bill of type is a table showing the number of each of the several sorts in a fount.

1904.  R. J. Farrer, Garden Asia, 63. Not China, but Korea, was the inventor of movable type, and the true parent of printing.

  c.  transf. A printed character or characters, or an imitation of these.

1784.  Cowper, Task, V. 419. To read engraven on the mouldy walls [of the Bastille] In stagg’ring types, his predecessor’s tale.

1831.  Brewster, Optics, xxxviii. § 183. 320. To see small objects distinctly … such as … a small type.

1841.  J. T. Hewlett, Parish Clerk, I. 125. It was directed in the well-known type of Davy Diggs.

1872.  Ruskin, Fors Clav. (1896), I. xvi. 321. Here it is in full type, for it is worth careful reading.

  10.  attrib. and Comb., as type-animal, -figure, -fossil, -man, -number, -phase, -phenomenon, -sample, -series, -set, -ship, -symptom, -theme; in sense 9, as type-arrangement, -body (BODY sb. 13), -case, -composition, -foundry, -mold, -punch; objective, instrumental, etc., as type-caster, -founder; type-casting, -composing, -creating, -distributing, -founding, -making, sbs. and adjs.; type-blackened, -cast, adj.; type-bar, (a) a line of type cast in a solid bar, as by the linotype; (b) in a typewriter, each of the bars carrying the letters or characters; type-block, a block having raised characters on its face, used to impress words or figures, as in gilding (Knight, Dict. Mech., 1875); type-blow, the impact of the type on the paper in a typewriter; type-carriage, in a printing-machine, a frame carrying the form; type-chart, a chart or outline of a typical object or structure; type-cutter, one who engraves the dies or punches from which types are cast; a punch-cutter; so type-cutting; type-cylinder, the cylinder on which the types or plates are fastened in a rotary press; type-desk, a desk or table at which typewriting is done; type-dressing, the scraping, polishing, etc., of newly cast type: in quot. attrib.; † type-fever, an intermittent fever, an ague; type-form, (a) = FORM sb. 20; (b) a typical or representative form; type-gauge, (a) a gauge used by type-founders to test the size of type-bodies; (b) a type-measure (Cassell’s Encycl. Dict., 1888); type-genus, the genus that most perfectly exemplifies the essential characters of the family to which it belongs; esp. the genus from which the name of the family is taken; type-high, a. of the standard height of type (i.e., in Great Britain usually 0.9175 in., in U.S. 0.918 in.); adv. as high as, so as to correspond in height with, type; type-holder, an instrument for holding types, used for stamping or lettering books (Cent. Dict., 1891); type-larval, a. of or pertaining to a type larva, i.e., one that exhibits features characteristic of the group to which it belongs, which do not appear in the adult form; type-letter, each of the types or letters of a typewriter; type-lever, a lever by which a type or character is impressed, as in a linotype; type-matter, printed matter, letterpress; type-measure, -measurer (Knight, Dict. Mech.), a rule showing the depth of the various kinds of type, used in calculating the number of lines or ems in composed type; type-metal, an alloy of lead and antimony, sometimes with tin or bismuth, of which printing types are cast; type-music, music printed from types; type-page, the page of type or letterpress as distinct from the paper-page on which it is printed; type-paper, paper suitable for typewriting; type-printed a., printed from types; also, type-written; so type-printing; type-rule (Funk’s Stand. Dict., 1895); type-scale = type-measure (Cent. Dict., 1891); type-script [cf. typescript TYPO-], sb. typewritten matter or copy; a. typewritten; type-setter, a compositor; also, a composing-machine; so type-setting, sb. and a., type-set a.; type-slug = type-bar a (Funk’s Stand. Dict., 1895); type-species, Nat. Hist. a species that most perfectly exemplifies its genus; esp. the species on which the genus is based; type-specimen, Nat. Hist. a specimen or individual on which the species is based, and from which the specific name is taken; also fig.; type-sticker, a compositor (slang); type-system, a system of teaching by types or representative specimens; type-theory, Chem. the theory of the derivation of compounds from types (sense 8 c) by substitution; type-transliteration, transliteration into modern type or letterpress; type-value, value as a type or standard of comparison; type-wash, a washing medium for type or plates (Webster, 1911); type-wheel, a wheel with raised characters on its periphery, as in the printing telegraph and in some typewriters; type-work, letterpress; also type-setting, composing. Also TYPEWRITER, etc.

1850.  Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, Jan., 35. This rare and beautiful creature [the giraffe], *type animal of their land. Ibid., 36. The elephant is evidently with these people, the type-animal.

1877.  W. Boyd, Descr. Model Newspaper. A sheet … regarding *type-arrangement, Excellent.

1886.  Science, VIII. 17 Sept., 252/2. The outer end of each lever being connected by a link with a finger-bar of the key-board, much as the type-bar of a type-writer is connected with its key.

1891.  in Cent. Dict.

1900.  Kipling, in Daily Express, 26 June, 4/6. Allen wagged a *type-blackened forefinger across the table.

1901.  Phonetic Jrnl., 15 June, 371/1. In … an electrical typewriter … the *type-blow, or the hammer-blow, will be automatic.

1895.  Funk’s Standard Dict., s.v. Point system, Under this system the old names of *type-bodies, as nonpareil (now 6-point), bourgeois (now 9-point), etc., are in disuse.

1825.  J. Nicholson, Operat. Mechanic, 307. By the farther motion of the *type carriage, the ink-table is caused to pass under four small elastic rollers.

1891.  Cent. Dict., *Type-case.

1909.  H. Hart, in Periodical, Feb., 294. A double-windowed room … was fitted up with compositors’ frames and type-cases.

1876.  Nature, 18 May, 43/2. This hammer … carries at its extremity a *type-cast letter.

1847.  in Inquiry Yorksh. Deaf & Dumb (1870), 19. As a *type-caster … we consider him a good hand.

1875.  Knight, Dict. Mech., *Type-casting,… Type casting and setting machine.

1897.  Daily News, 2 Feb., 2/1. The Wicks Rotary Type-Casting Machine can cast … from 40,000 to 60,000 letters per hour.

1887.  J. G. Wood, in 19th Cent., March, 386. There are *type-charts of each organ.

1878.  Jevons, Prim. Pol. Econ., 71. Some compositors still object to work in offices where *type-composing machines are introduced.

1881.  Instr. Census Clerks (1886), 51. *Type cutter, founder.

1890.  Athenæum, 1 March, 281/3. He was a die-sinker and type-cutter.

1839.  T. C. Hansard, Print. & Type-founding (1841), 156. An inking apparatus was applied to the *type-cylinder, and the paper was to be impressed by passing between the two.

1901.  F. Harrison, in 19th Cent., June, 918. Every girl at a *type-desk or a telegraph office may live to reside in Fifth Avenue.

1875.  Knight, Dict. Mech., 2676/1. *Type-distributing machines have frequently been invented as companion machines to those for composing. Ibid., *Type-dressing machine … passes the type set up in rows between a pair of knife-blades set in exact parallelism.

1819.  Sir A. Boswell, in Poet. Wks. & Mem., Introd. 33. Being infected with the *type-fever the fits have periodically returned.

1897.  Westm. Gaz., 16 March, 2/1. Mr. Meredith … has himself drawn the great *type-figure of modern fiction … ‘The Egoist.’

1839.  Ure, Dict. Arts, 1035. To adapt this method of inking to a flat *type-form machine. Ibid. (1875), III. 660. Mr. Applegarth … decided on abandoning the reciprocating motion of the type-form.

1900.  F. H. Stoddard, Evol. Eng. Novel, 218. Mankind demands that it shall show conformity to a certain type-form.

1901.  Nature, 19 Dec., 168/1. The author divides the species into the type-form and four varieties.

1854.  Murchison, Siluria, iii. 52. The *type-fossils … have not yet been detected.

1801.  Tilloch’s Philos. Mag., X. 270. A new art, that of the *type-founder.

1888.  Burgon, Lives 12 Gd. Men, I. iii. 349. A heavy assortment of great and small pica, newly arrived from the type-founder.

1839.  T. C. Hansard, Print. & Type-founding (1841), 222. The invention of the art of *type-founding was a very early consequence of the discovery of the rude art of taking impressions from laboriously excised letters of wood and metal.

1875.  W. Blades, in Bks. in Chains (1892), Introd. 24. The first positive notice we have of type-founding in England is the fount of Saxon cut by John Day for Archbishop Parker and used in 1567.

1843.  Penny Cycl., XXV. 454/1. The first and most important operation of a *type-foundry is the formation of the punches.

1840.  Whewell, Philos. Induct. Sci., VIII. ii. I. 477. The type-species of every genus, the *type-genus of every family, is, then, one which possesses all the characters and properties of the genus in a marked and prominent manner.

1896.  H. Woodward, Guide Fossil Reptiles Brit. Mus., 65. Dr. Filhol records the type-genus from the Upper Eocene Phosphorites of France.

1896.  T. L. de Vinne, Moxon’s Mech. Exerc., Printing, 406. Brass Rule … cut in strips *type-high.

1890.  W. J. Gordon, Foundry, 213. The copper electro is mounted type-high, and becomes the block from which the printing is made.

1884.  Hyatt, in Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., XXIII. 5 March, 122. Their embryonic history has no stage which exhibits…, a distinct *type-larval stage.

1876.  Nature, 18 May, 43/2. Two keys struck at the same time must consequently cause two *type-letters to clash in their attempt to reach the same spot, the centre of the circle.

1908.  Daily Chron., 26 Aug., 5/2. The typist has at his disposal all kinds of type on type wheels which are fixed at the end of *type levers.

1872.  T. L. Cuyler, Heart Life, 25. He is the *type-man for thorough-going fidelity.

1906.  Dk. Argyll, Autobiog. & Mem., I. ii. 32. The type-man was Wolfe Tone, the unscrupulous Villain.

1892.  Advt., in Photogr. Ann., II. p. clxiv. Phototype Prints are the best for reproducing Portraits [etc.] … *Type Matter requires a second printing.

1800.  trans. Lagrange’s Chem., I. 445. Antimony and lead form a most valuable mixture; it is that used for printing-types, and is called *Type-Metal.

1818.  Todd, To stereotype, to make type-metal plates to print from at the letter-press.

1850.  Ansted, Elem. Geol., Min., etc., § 475. [Antimony] is used in the manufacture of type metal, of which it forms from one fourth to a twelfth part, the rest being lead, with a little tin, bismuth, and copper.

1882.  J. Southward, Pract. Print. (1884), 15. Type metal is of two kinds, ordinary and hard.

1843.  Penny Cycl., XXV. 454/1. A *type-mould [illustrated].

1882.  J. Southward, Pract. Print. (1884), 342. This system undoubtedly brings *type-music into disrepute.

1871.  Kingsley, At Last, xiii. The nut ought to have … not one ovule, but three, the *type-number in palms.

1910.  Athenæum, 19 March, 348/1. The relation of *type-page to paper-page is … still open, within certain limits, to individual taste.

1906.  Daily Chron., 27 Jan., 6/4. They make the better-class papers known as ‘banks,’ *‘type’ papers, ‘drawing’ papers, and high-class writing papers.

1911.  Edin. Rev., July, 103. Isolated … caprices rather than *type-phases of animal literature.

1892.  Daily News, 26 Feb., 7/3. I searched Sampson before leaving … and found two *type-printed statements relating to the charge.

1839.  T. C. Hansard, Print. & Type-founding (1841), 59. There does not appear to be any vestige of an art in any degree similar (such as block-printing) having been practised prior to the introduction of *type-printing.

1876.  Nature, 18 May, 43/1. The sewing-machine or the more novel type-printing apparatus.

1888.  Arts & Crafts Catal., 94. The current hand-writing may be elegant enough to be … used as a model for the *type-punch engraver.

1894.  Daily News, 12 Sept., 7/1. *Type-samples of unmanufactured tobacco sent for trade purposes.

1893.  A. Estoclet, in Nation (N. Y.), 6 July, 10/3. Writing … concerning a typewritten document…, I half apologetically used the word *‘typescript.’

1906.  N. W. Thomas, Kin. Org. & Group Marr. Austral., Pref. He has read twice over my typescript MS, and my proofs.

1907.  H. Wyndham, Flare of Footlights, xxix. Adrian recognized it as the typescript of his one-act play.

1887.  J. G. Wood, in 19th Cent., March, 395. I would have a *type-series of the vertebrates, so that in going through the galleries the visitors would recognise the creatures they had seen grouped.

1903.  Westm. Gaz., 17 Nov., 2/1. A *type set of the collections representing the massive rocks of the island.

1867.  Brande & Cox, Dict. Sc., etc. s.v. Telegraph, The *type-set message. Ibid., Ten *type-setters under Bonelli’s system can compose at least 300 despatches per hour.

1888.  Cassell’s Encycl. Dict., Type-setter, 2, a type-setting or composing machine.

1899.  Daily News, 24 June, 4/4. When women first began as type-setters in Boston, the male type-setters struck.

1911.  T. P.’s Weekly, 29 Dec., 844/1. Young’s Patent Composing Machine … was the name of the first practical type-setter, seventy years ago.

1867.  Brande & Cox, Dict. Sc., etc. s.v. Telegraph, Converting the telegraph stations into so many *type-setting workshops.

1875.  Knight, Dict. Mech., Type-setting machine, a composing-machine for type.

1886.  Science, 17 Sept., 254/1. Justification will be as easily accomplished as in ordinary type-setting.

1901.  Feilden’s Mag., IV. 421/1. The *type-ship, which has been tried on the measured mile.

1840.  Whewell, Philos. Induct. Sci., VIII. ii. I. 476. All the species which have a greater affinity with this *type-species than with any others, form the genus.

1891.  Cent. Dict., *Type specimen.

1894.  Geol. Mag., Oct., 435. J. Sowerby’s type-specimens of Ammonites Brocchii are much more inflated than the present species.

1904.  G. L. Kittredge, Eng. & Scot. Pop. Ball., p. xxvi. ‘The Hangman’s Tree’ is a survival of an archaic type-specimen.

1842.  H. Greeley, Corr. R. W. Griswold (1898), 104. Which you will keep out of the dirty hands of all *type-stickers.

1899.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VII. 591. All the *type symptoms of cerebellar abscess were present.

1901.  Nature, 26 Sept., 526/1. Prosecuting a more detailed study of individual forms, as with the now universal *type-system.

1901.  Daily Chron., 14 June, 3/4. In ‘Rosmersholm’ Ibsen has seized upon one of the great *type-themes of modern life.

1868.  Watts, Dict. Chem., V. 927. The law of substitution is the expression of facts, which the *type-theory was intended to explain.

1896.  Periodical, No. 1. 4. The unique MS. … has been reproduced … in photo-facsimile and *type-transliteration.

1909.  Marett, Threshold Relig., Introd. (1914), 25. When … a set of useful contrasts is obtained by means of such bundles, each bundle … is said to have *‘type-value.’

1849.  Noad, Electricity, viii. (ed. 3), 381. The rotatory motion given to the *type wheel … until the required letter arrives opposite the paper.

1886.  Science, 17 Sept., 252/2. Fitted in vertical grooves in the periphery of the type-wheel are a number of steel types.

1910.  H. C. G. Moule, in Fundamentals, II. vi. 107. The compositor ‘justifies’ a piece of *typework, when he corrects, brings into perfect order, as to spaces between words and letters, and so on, the types which he has set up.

  Hence (nonce-wds.) Typeful a., having the quality of a type; typical; symbolic; Typefy v. trans. to put into type, to print; Typeless a., untyped, unprinted.

1889.  Lucia E. F. Kimball, in Chicago Advance, 16 May. How *typeful this lovely blossom of the rare, sweet souls who strive … to make the bare, ugly places brighter and better.

1856.  Strang, Glasgow & Clubs, 25. The blatant blusterings of every charlatan … must be pencilled and *typefied, before the lapse of a few hours.

1845.  Ford, Handbk. Spain, II. 708/1. Many authors … content to remain … in *typeless obscurity.

  Type, sb.²: see TIPE sb.¹