printing wheel

A wheel used in paging or numbering machines or in ticket-printing machines It has letters or figures on its periphery. for partly-colored work. printing-yarn, s. A machine for printing yarn print-le , *print-le e, a. [Eng. print ; -le .] Leaving no print or impre ion. "Thus I set my printle feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head." Milton: Comus, 897. print-zi-a, subst . [Named after Jacob Printz, a Swede, and a correspondent of Linnæus.] Bot.: A genus of Mutisiaceæ, tribe Barn a des ice. The leaves of Printzia aromatic a are used at the Cape of Good Hope as a substitute for tea. division. [TRIGLA.] IMG:content-1541.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Entom .: The typical genus of the sub-family Prionine (q. v.). Antenne generally pectinated. It flies in the evenings or sits on old oak trees. P. brevicornis destroys orchard and other trees in this country. 2. Palæont.: One species from the Jura ic rocks. pri-õr, a. & adv. [Lat.=sooner, former.] A. As adj .: Former; preceding, especially in order of time; earlier, previous, antecedent, anterior, foregoing; as, a prior discovery, a prior claim. B. As adv .: Previously, antecedently, before.