topical coloring

A term used in calico printing to indicate that the color or mordant is applied to specific portions of the cloth forming the pattern, in contradistinction to the application of color to the cloth in a dye-bath. Script.: A place in the immediate vicinity of Jerusalem, considered by Milton (see extract) to be identical with the valley of Hinnom, but described in Scripture as in that valley (2 Kings xxiii. 10; Jer. vii. 31). It was southeast of Jerusalem (Jer. xix. 2), and had been prepared of old for some king of Israel, or for Moloch (q. v.) (Isa. xxx. 33). Whatever its primary design, "high places" were erected there, and it became the chief seat of the worship of particular part. Moloch in Palestine (2 Kings xxiii. 10; Jer. vii. 31). Josiah not merely stopped that cruel form of idola- top-Ic-al-ly, adv. [Eng. topical; -ly.] In a topical manner; locally; with limitation to some "Which topically applyed become a Phænigmus or try, but defiled the place (2 Kings, xxiii. 10; Jer, rubifying medicine." -Browne: Vulgar Errors, bk. iii., xix. 13), apparently by making it the receptacle of the filth of the capital. It became a burial ground, ultimately overcrowded with bodies (Jer. vii. 31, 32; xix. 6, 11). [GEHENNA, MOLOCH.] "The pleasant valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of hell." Milton: P. L., i. 404. tõph'-In, s. [TOPH.] A kind of sandstone. toph-ŭs, s. [ТОРН.] tō-pi', s. [TOPEE.]