woodbury : Idioms & Phrases

• noun United States social economist (1876-1933)
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WordNet

Wood"bur*y-type` noun

Etymology

After the name of the inventor, W. Woodbury.

Definitions

1. A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing.
2. A print from such a plate.

Webster 1913