vigilante (vijilante)

[ photog., a mask used in printing vignette pictures. It is a sheet of thin paper with a piece of the desired size left clear and semi-transparent in the middle, proceeding from which shading is carried in an opaque color so as gradually to attain complete opacity, and thus cause the strongly printed part of the negative in the A little over a year ago one committee of vigilantes in eastern Montana shot or hung nearly sixty [horse-thieves) -not, however, with the best judgment in all cases. T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXV. 505. of the unprinted paper. Also called vignetter and vignetting-mask.