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 Type n.
 1. The mark or impression of something; stamp; impressed sign; emblem.
 The faith they have in tennis, and tall stockings,
 Short blistered breeches, and those types of travel.   --Shak.
 2. Form or character impressed; style; semblance.
    Thy father bears the type of king of Naples.   --Shak.
 3. A figure or representation of something to come; a token; a sign; a symbol; -- correlative to antitype.
    A type is no longer a type when the thing typified comes to be actually exhibited.   --South.
 4. That which possesses or exemplifies characteristic qualities; the representative. Specifically: (a) Biol. A general form or structure common to a number of individuals; hence, the ideal representation of a species, genus, or other group, combining the essential characteristics; an animal or plant possessing or exemplifying the essential characteristics of a species, genus, or other group.  Also, a group or division of animals having a certain typical or characteristic structure of body maintained within the group.
    Since the time of Cuvier and Baer . . . the whole animal kingdom has been universally held to be divisible into a small number of main divisions or types.   --Haeckel.
 (b) Fine Arts The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; esp., the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
 (c) Chem. A simple compound, used as a model or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
 Note: ☞ The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, HCl; water, H2O; ammonia, NH3; and methane, CH4.
 5. Typog. (a) A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing. (b) Such letters or characters, in general, or the whole quantity of them used in printing, spoken of collectively; any number or mass of such letters or characters, however disposed.
 Note: ☞ Type are mostly made by casting type metal in a mold, though some of the larger sizes are made from maple, mahogany, or boxwood. In the cut, a is the body; b, the face, or part from which the impression is taken; c, the shoulder, or top of the body; d, the nick (sometimes two or more are made), designed to assist the compositor in distinguishing the bottom of the face from t`e top; e, the groove made in the process of finishing, -- each type as cast having attached to the bottom of the body a jet, or small piece of metal (formed by the surplus metal poured into the mold), which, when broken off, leaves a roughness that requires to be removed. The fine lines at the top and bottom of a letter are technically called ceriphs, and when part of the face projects over the body, as in the letter f, the projection is called a kern.
    The type which compose an ordinary book font consist of Roman CAPITALS, small capitals, and lower-case letters, and Italic CAPITALS and lower-case letters, with accompanying figures, points, and reference marks, -- in all about two hundred characters. Including the various modern styles of fancy type, some three or four hundred varieties of face are made. Besides the ordinary Roman and Italic, some of the most important of the varieties are --
 

 U·ni·ty n.; pl. Unities
 1. The state of being one; oneness.
    Whatever we can consider as one thing suggests to the understanding the idea of unity.   --Locks.
 Note: ☞ Unity is affirmed of a simple substance or indivisible monad, or of several particles or parts so intimately and closely united as to constitute a separate body or thing. See the Synonyms under Union.
 2. Concord; harmony; conjunction; agreement; uniformity; as, a unity of proofs; unity of doctrine.
    Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!   --Ps. cxxxiii. 1.
 3. Math. Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities or magnitudes taken as one, or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation; thus, in a table of natural sines, the radius of the circle is regarded as unity.
 Note: ☞ The number 1, when it is not applied to any particular thing, is generally called unity.
 4. Poetry & Rhet. In dramatic composition, one of the principles by which a uniform tenor of story and propriety of representation are preserved; conformity in a composition to these; in oratory, discourse, etc., the due subordination and reference of every part to the development of the leading idea or the eastablishment of the main proposition.
 Note: ☞ In the Greek drama, the three unities required were those of action, of time, and of place; that is, that there should be but one main plot; that the time supposed should not exceed twenty-four hours; and that the place of the action before the spectators should be one and the same throughout the piece.
 5. Fine Arts & Mus. Such a combination of parts as to constitute a whole, or a kind of symmetry of style and character.
 6. Law The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.
 Note: ☞ The properties of it are derived from its unity, which is fourfold; unity of interest, unity of title, unity of time, and unity of possession; in other words, joint tenants have one and the same interest, accruing by one and the same conveyance, commencing at the same time, and held by one and the same undivided possession. Unity of possession is also a joint possession of two rights in the same thing by several titles, as when a man, having a lease of land, afterward buys the fee simple, or, having an easement in the land of another, buys the servient estate.
 At unity, at one.
 Unity of type. Biol. See under Type.
 Syn: -- Union; oneness; junction; concord; harmony. See Union.
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