Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Lithotypy

Lithotypy , noun

[Litho- + -typy.]

The art or process of making a kind of hard, stereotype plate, by pressing into a mold, taken from a page of type or other matter, a composition of gum shellac and sand of a fine quality, together with a little tar and linseed oil, all in a heated state.