imposing stone

English

Noun

imposing stone (plural imposing stones)

1. (printing, dated) The stone on which the pages or columns of type are imposed or made into forms.

Synonyms

• imposing table

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “imposing stone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)