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autotype(dictionary)

fragrance (iou) and autotype (medicine)


fragrance (iou)



fragrance noun & verb. M17.
[Old & mod. French, or Latin fragrantia, from fragrant-: see FRAGRANT, -ANCE.]
A. noun. Sweetness of smell; sweet or pleasing scent; (in Cosmetics) a scent; fig. a pleasing emotional association. M17.
Keats To..share The inward fragrance of each Other's heart. J. C. Powys There was a faint fragrance of sap-filled grass in the air.
b. verb trans. Supply or fill with fragrance. rare. M19.

autotype (medicine)


autotype


1. A facsimile.

2. A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate.

Origin: Auto- + -type: cf. F. Autotype.

Source: Websters Dictionary