Associations to the word «Letterpress»

Wiktionary

LETTERPRESS, noun. The printing process in which ink is applied to the top surface of a raised image area, which is then pressed against paper to transfer the image.
LETTERPRESS, noun. (printing) : printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates.
LETTERPRESS, noun. A machine used for such printing.

Dictionary definition

LETTERPRESS, noun. Printing from a plate with raised characters.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne