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The art or practice of steel engraving; especially, the process, invented by Perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened, over a soft steel plate, which thus becomes a facsimile of the original. The process has been superseded by electrotypy.

• Rollicking
  of Rollic
• Superseding
  of Supersede
• ROLLYPOOLY
  A game in which a ball, rolling into a certain place, wins. [Written also rouly-pouly.]
• First-class
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope.
• Invention
  The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing.
• Originalness
  The quality of being original; originality.
• Practicer
  One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts.
• Rollic
  To move or play in a careless, swaggering manner, with a frolicsome air; to frolic; to sport; commonly in the form rollicking.
• Supersede
  To come, or be placed, in the room of; to replace.
• STEELBOWGOODS
  Those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord.
• First-hand
  Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent.
• Inventious
  Inventive.
• Process
  The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.
• Rolling-pin
  A cylindrical piece of wood or other material, with which paste or dough may be rolled out and reduced to a proper thickness.
• Supersedeas
  A writ of command to suspend the powers of an officer in certain cases, or to stay proceedings under another writ.
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Cylinder
  A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular.
• Firstling
  The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock.
• Inventive
  Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius.

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