Chapter L: Ladles. See § 18. ¶ 3

_Lay in Sheets._ When the _Press-man_ lays _Sheets_ on the _Tympan_, it is stiled _Laying in Sheets_.

_Lay out Sheets._ When the _Press-man_ takes _Sheets_ off the _Tympan_, and lays them on the _Heap_, it is stiled _Laying out Sheets_.

_Lay on._ A phrase used for the Number of Books to be Printed. Thus they say, There is 1000, 2000, 3000, _&c._ _Laid on_. See _Great Numbers_. See _Small Numbers_.

_Lean Ashes._ Founders call their Ashes _Lean_, if they are _Light_; because then they have little _Mettle_ in them. See _Fat Ashes_.

_Lean._ See Beat Lean.

_Lean Face._ A Letter whose Stems and other Stroaks have not their full width.

_Lean Stroaks._ The fine Stoaks in a Letter.

_Leather Groove._ See § 17. ¶ 2.

_Letter-Board._ See § 7.

_Letter Hangs._ If the _Compositer_ has been careless in Emptying his _Composing-stick_, so as to set the _Letter_ loosely down in the _Galley_, and they stand not perfectly Square and Upright, the _Letter_ Hangs: Or if after _Overrunning_ on the _Correcting-stone_ he has not Set his _Letter_ in a Square position again, before he _Locks up_, (for we may suppose when the _Pages_ are Open’d the _Letter_ stands Loose, and more or less out of Square) So then, the _Matter_ standing thus out of Square, is said to _Hang_. See § 22. ¶ 4, 7.

_Light Work._ See _Easie Work_.

_Liner._ See § 12. ¶ 7.

_Lining-Stick._ See § 16. ¶ 2.

_Lock up._ See § 22. ¶ 7. and § 21. ¶ 1.

_Long Cross._ See _Chase_.

_Long Gage._ See § 12. ¶ 5.

_Long Primmer._ See § 2. ¶ 2.

_Long Pull._ See § 24 ¶ 5.

_Loose Justifying._ See § 22. ¶ 4.

_Low against Paper._ See _Heigth against Paper_.

_Low Case._ When the _Compositer_ has _Compos’d_ almost all his _Letters_ out of his _Case_, he says his _Case_ is _Low_.

_Lower Case._ See § 3.