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Printer's Devilry. A Printer's Devilry is a form of cryptic crossword puzzle, first invented by Afrit ( Alistair Ferguson Ritchie) in 1937. A Printer's Devilry puzzle does not follow the standard Ximenean rules of crossword setting, since the clues do not define the answers. [ 1] Instead, each clue consists of a sentence from which a string of ...
-tension, -tensive: pressure: Latin tēnsiō, stretching, extension, tension hypertension: terato-Monster Greek τέρᾰς (téras) teratoma, teratogen tetan-rigid, tense Greek τέτανος (tétanos) tetanus: thec-case, sheath: Greek θήκη (thḗkē) intrathecal: thel-of or pertaining to a nipple (uncommon as a prefix)
Infobox references. Nitrocellulose (also known as cellulose nitrate, flash paper, flash cotton, guncotton, pyroxylin and flash string, depending on form) is a highly flammable compound formed by nitrating cellulose through exposure to a mixture of nitric acid and sulfuric acid. One of its first major uses was as guncotton, a replacement for ...
Calico (/ ˈkælɪkoʊ /; in British usage since 1505) [1] is a heavy [2] plain-woven textile made from unbleached, and often not fully processed, cotton. It may also contain unseparated husk parts. The fabric is far coarser than muslin, but less coarse and thick than canvas or denim.
Chromolithography is a chemical process based on the rejection of water by grease. The image is applied to stone, grained zinc or aluminium surfaces, with a grease-based crayon or ink. Limestone and zinc are two commonly used materials in the production of chromolithographs, as aluminium production was limited before the invention of the Hall ...
Letterpress printing is a technique of relief printing for producing many copies by repeated direct impression of an inked, raised surface against individual sheets of paper or a continuous roll of paper. [1] A worker composes and locks movable type into the "bed" or "chase" of a press, inks it, and presses paper against it to transfer the ink ...
On 18 August 1942, a day before the Dieppe raid, 'Dieppe' appeared as an answer in The Daily Telegraph crossword (set on 17 August 1942) (clued "French port"), causing a security alarm. The War Office suspected that the crossword had been used to pass intelligence to the enemy and called upon Lord Tweedsmuir, then a senior intelligence officer ...
Cotton carder (known as dhunuri or lep wallah) in Howrah, Kolkata, India. In textile production, carding is a mechanical process that disentangles, cleans and intermixes fibres to produce a continuous web or sliver suitable for subsequent processing. [ 1 ] This is achieved by passing the fibres between differentially moving surfaces covered ...