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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Entering again or anew.
  • noun In hand-block calico-printing, the secondary and subsequent colors, which are adapted to their proper place in the pattern on the cloth by means of pinpoints. Also called grounding-in.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Calico Printing.) The process of applying additional colors, by applications of printing blocks, to patterns already partly colored.

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  • verb Present participle of re-enter.

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