Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A slab, originally of carefully leveled stone, but now often of iron, resting upon a frame, on which pages of type or stereotype plates are imposed, and on which type-correcting in the page is done.
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Examples
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Garrison had it for an imposing-stone when he looked into the faces of seventeen millions of angry men, and printed his sublime pledge, "I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard."
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The editors and printers slept on the floor, a Chinaman did their cooking, and the "imposing-stone" was the general dinner table.
Roughing It Mark Twain 1872
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The editors and printers slept on the floor, a Chinaman did their cooking, and the "imposing-stone" was the general dinner table.
Roughing It, Part 5. Mark Twain 1872
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"Here, devil, empty the quoins into the standing galley and the imposing-stone into the hell-box; assemble the comps around the frisket and let them jeff for takes and be quick about it," I should recognize a mistake or two in the phrasing, and would know that the writer was only a printer theoretically, not practically.
What Is Man? and Other Essays Mark Twain 1872
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The editors and printers slept on the floor, a Chinaman did their cooking, and the "imposing-stone" was the general dinner table.
Roughing It 1871
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The door was broken open, the press partly demolished, the imposing-stone overturned, and a quantity of type battered and thrown into the adjacent bay.
The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion John Charles Dent 1864
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I built his fire for him in the winter mornings; I brought his water from the village pump; I swept out his office; I picked up his type from under his stand; and, if he were there to see, I put the good type in his case and the broken ones among the "hell matter"; and if he wasn't there to see, I dumped it all with the "pi" on the imposing-stone -- for that was the furtive fashion of the cub, and I was a cub.
Mark Twain's Speeches Mark Twain 1872
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Part of a Spanish poem, borrowed, without acknowledgment, from Prescott, seems to have gone to "pie" on the imposing-stone, and been suffered to remain in that state.] [Footnote B: Mr. Wilson would have been less unfortunate, if he could have "suppressed" the work of Mr. Gallatin to which he has the effrontery to refer as an authority for his ridiculous assertion, that the "so-called picture-writing" of the Aztecs was a Spanish invention.
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