| 单词 | pressing paper |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspressing paper pressing paper n. †(a) a type of paper used during cloth manufacture, perhaps when pressing the cloth, to give it a smoother surface; a piece of this (obsolete); (b) (Botany) paper used to absorb moisture during the pressing of plant specimens. ΚΠ 1545 Rates Custome House sig. cijv Pressinge papers the C. leues xx.d. 1609 Rates Marchandizes sig. K2 Pressing-paper the hundred leaues, vi.s.viij.d. 1718 Boston News-let. 2 June 2/2 Pressing Papers of several sorts fit for Weavers. 1769 J. Priestley Hist. & Present State Electr. (ed. 2) i. 26 He found light emitted in the dark by the silk and the linen, but more especially by a piece of white pressing paper, which is of the same nature with card paper. 1895 Bot. Gaz. 20 492 I always carry with me on my collecting trips a small press..filled with small blotters and pressing paper. 1928 E. Hawks Pioneers of Plant Study 233 Linnæus traversed in five months some 4600 miles of country, carrying fowling piece.., pressing paper, pocket microscope, telescope, and but a small allowance of clothing. 1995 Brittonia 47 220/1 After collection, the highly divided leaves of some taxa..are best floated onto pressing paper. < as lemmas |
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