typograph
(ˈtaɪp-, ˈtɪpəgrɑːf, -græf)
[a. F. typographe (1554 in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. med.L. typographus, f. Gr. τύπος (see typo-) + -γραϕος (see -graph). So Pg. typographo, Sp. and It. tipografo.]
1. A typographer or typographist.
| 1737 Ozell Rabelais iii. 281 A Fault of Mr Typograph's. 1833 Moore Mem. (1854) VI. 329, I recollect having a little struggle with Simmons, my valuable Typograph, on this very point. 1880 (title) The Enemies of Books. By William Blades, Typograph. |
2. A writing-machine for the blind in which pressure upon raised types causes the corresponding characters to be printed.
| 1820 Gentl. Mag. May 446/1 A Duplex Typograph..enables the blind to receive and communicate ideas by means of letters, upon a principle adapted to the sense of feeling. 1851 Rep. Jurors, Exhibition of 1851 311 Hughes..has exhibited a portable typograph or writing machine for the blind. |
3. (See quot.)
| 1886 Science 17 Sept. 252/1 There is now being perfected..a machine intended to dispense with type and type-setters in certain kinds of printing. The ‘standard typograph’ is the name selected for it... The typograph is in reality a kind of type-writer, but, instead of printing upon paper, it produces indented or depressed characters upon a sheet of soft metal, from which an electrotype may be made. |