(τύπος), an impression, image, or representation of some model, which is termed the antitype. In this sense the word occurs often in the writings of divines, who employ it to denote that prefiguration of the great events of man's redemption which they have found or fancied in the principal transactions recorded in the Old Testament.

Type, among letter-founders and printers, the same with letter. TYR

Type is also used to denote the order observed in the intensification and remission of fevers, pulses, &c.