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Bastard type Bastard Bas"tard, a.
1. Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate.
See Bastard, n., note.
2. Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; --
applied to things which resemble those which are genuine,
but are really not so.
That bastard self-love which is so vicious in
itself, and productive of so many vices. --Barrow.
3. Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a
bastard culverin. [Obs.]
4. (Print.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page
preceding the full title page of a book.
Bastard ashlar (Arch.), stones for ashlar work, roughly
squared at the quarry.
Bastard file, a file intermediate between the coarsest and
the second cut.
Bastard type (Print.), type having the face of a larger or
a smaller size than the body; e.g., a nonpareil face on a
brevier body.
Bastard wing (Zo["o]l.), three to five quill feathers on a
small joint corresponding to the thumb in some mam malia;
the alula.
Ionic type Ionic I*on"ic, a. [L. Ionicus, Gr. ?, fr. ? Ionia.]
1. Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians.
2. (Arch.) Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one
of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the
five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth
century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with
spiral volutes. See Illust. of Capital.
Ionic dialect (Gr. Gram.), a dialect of the Greek language,
used in Ionia. The Homeric poems are written in what is
designated old Ionic, as distinguished from new Ionic, or
Attic, the dialect of all cultivated Greeks in the period
of Athenian prosperity and glory.
Ionic foot. (Pros.) See Ionic, n., 1.
Ionic, or Ionian, mode (Mus.), an ancient mode,
supposed to correspond with the modern major scale of C.
Ionic sect, a sect of philosophers founded by Thales of
Miletus, in Ionia. Their distinguishing tenet was, that
water is the original principle of all things.
Ionic type, a kind of heavy-faced type (as that of the
following line).
Note: This is Nonpareil Ionic.
Point system of type bodies The foregoing account is conformed to the designations made use
of by American type founders, but is substantially correct for
England. Agate, however, is called ruby, in England, where,
also, a size intermediate between nonpareil and minion is
employed, called emerald.
Point system of type bodies (Type Founding), a system
adopted by the type founders of the United States by which
the various sizes of type have been so modified and
changed that each size bears an exact proportional
relation to every other size. The system is a modification
of a French system, and is based on the pica body. This
pica body is divided into twelfths, which are termed
``points,' and every type body consist of a given number
of these points. Many of the type founders indicate the
new sizes of type by the number of points, and the old
names are gradually being done away with. By the point
system type founders cast type of a uniform size and
height, whereas formerly fonts of pica or other type made
by different founders would often vary slightly so that
they could not be used together. There are no type in
actual use corresponding to the smaller theoretical sizes
of the point system. In some cases, as in that of ruby,
the term used designates a different size from that
heretofore so called.
radial type Radial engine Radial engine (Mach.)
An engine, usually an internal-combustion engine of a certain
type (the
radial type) having several cylinders arranged radially
like the spokes of a complete wheel. The
semiradial engine has radiating cylinders on only one side
of the crank shaft.
Unity of type 1 American 9 Bourgeois [bar] [bar] 11/2 German [bar] 2 Saxon 10
Long Primer [bar] [bar] 21/2 Norse [bar] 3 Brilliant 11 Small
Pica [bar] [bar] 31/2 Ruby 12 Pica [bar] [bar] 4 Excelsior [bar]
41/2 Diamond 14 English [bar] [bar] 5 Pearl 16 Columbian [bar]
[bar] 51/2 Agate [bar] 6 Nonpareil 18 Great Primer [bar] [bar] 7
Minion [bar] 8 Brevier 20 Paragon [bar] [bar] Diagram of the
"points" by which sizes of Type are graduated in the "Point
System".
Type founder, one who casts or manufacture type.
Type foundry, Type foundery, a place for the manufacture
of type.
Type metal, an alloy used in making type, stereotype
plates, etc., and in backing up electrotype plates. It
consists essentially of lead and antimony, often with a
little tin, nickel, or copper.
Type wheel, a wheel having raised letters or characters on
its periphery, and used in typewriters, printing
telegraphs, etc.
Unity of type (Biol.), that fundamental agreement in
structure which is seen in organic beings of the same
class, and is quite independent of their habits of life.
--Darwin.
Unity of type At unity, at one.
Unity of type. (Biol.) See under Type.
Syn: Union; oneness; junction; concord; harmony. See Union.
