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Webster 1913 Edition


Typography

Ty-pog′ra-phy

,
Noun.
[
Type
+
-graphy
: cf. F.
typographie
.]
1.
The act or art of expressing by means of types or symbols; emblematical or hieroglyphic representation.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.
2.
The art of printing with types; the use of types to produce impressions on paper, vellum, etc.

Webster 1828 Edition


Typography

TYPOG'RAPHY

,
Noun.
[Gr. type, and to write.]
1.
The art of printing, or the operation of impressing letters and words on forms of types.
2.
Emblematical or hieroglyphic representation.