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m _Thick_. See § 13. ¶ 1.

_Make a Measure._ See § 22. ¶ 4.

_Make ready the Form._ See § 24. ¶ 7.

_Male Gage._ The outer _Gage_, or outer _Screw_, that enters or fits into its _Match Gage_ or _Screw_, &c.

_Mallet._ See § 9.

_Matrice._ See § 17. ¶ 1.

_Matter._ The series of the discourse of the _Compositers Copy_.

_Measure._ The width of a _Page_. See _Composing-Stick_.

_Mettle._ See § 18. ¶ 2.

_Mold._ See § 15. ¶ 1.

_Monk._ When the _Press-man_ has not _Destributed_ his _Balls_, some splotches of _Inck_ may lye on one or more of them, which in _Beating_ he delivers upon the _Form_; so that the Sheet Printed on has a black blotch on it: Which Blotch is called a _Monk_.

_Mouth-piece._ See § 15. ¶ 1.

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n _Thick_. See § 13. ¶ 1.

_Naked Form_, or _Page_, is when the _Furniture_ is taken from about all sides of the _Form_ or _Page_. See § 22. ¶ 7.

_Neck of a Letter._ So much of the _Punch_ as is Sunk into the _Matrice_ is called the _Neck_; and when that _Letter_ is _Cast_ of _Mettle_, it is so much as comes above the Square of the _Shank_, _viz._ above the _Beard_.

_Nick._ See § 15. ¶ 1.

_Nomparel._ See § 2. ¶ 2.

_Notch of the Matrice._ See § 17. ¶ 2.

_Notes._ _Quotations_ down the side of a _Page_ are called _Notes_.

_Number Laid_ on. See _Lay on_.

_Nut of the Spindle._ The _Female Screw_ that receives the _Worms_ of the _Spindle_.

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_Odd Page._ The First, Third, Fifth, Seventh, and all un-even numbred _Pages_ are _Odd Pages_.

_Off._ A _Press-man_ usually says, _I am off_, meaning he has _Wrought off_ his _Token_, his _Heap_, his _Form_.

_Open Matter._ Full of _Breaks_ and _Whites_.

_Open Furnance._ See § 18. ¶ 2.

_Open the Form._ See § 22. ¶ 2.

_Open Work._ See _Open Matter_.

_Over-run._ See § 22. ¶ 8.

_Out._ A _Compositer_ usually says, _I am Out_, meaning he has _Set out_ his _Page_, _Form_, or _Copy_. See also § 23.

_Out-Page._ In _Octavo’s_, _Twelves_, _Sixteens_, every _Out-side Page_ in the Sheet is called an _Out-Page_, the rest are called _In-pages_.

_Out of Register._ Bad _Register_. See § 24. ¶ 7.

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_Pale Colour._ If there be not _Blacking_ enough in the _Inck_, or the _Form_ be _Beaten_ with too _Lean Balls_, the Work will be said to have a _Pale Colour_.

_Pallat._ See § 15. ¶ 1.

_Pan._ The great _Ladle_ that _Founders_ melt their _Mettle_ in, when they are _Casting Letters_, is called the _Pan_. See also § 9. ¶ 18.

_Paper-bench._ See _Horse_.

_Paper-board._ See § 7.

_Paper the Case._ See § 22. ¶ 1.

_Paper Windows._ See Customs.

_Paper up Letter._ _Pages._ See § 22. ¶ 10.

_Pearl._ See § 2. ¶ 2.

_Peel._ See § 11. ¶ 22.

_Pelts._ Sheep Skins untan’d, used for _Ball Leathers_.

_Pica._ See § 2. ¶ 2.

_Picks._ When either pieces of the Skin or Film that grows on _Inck_ with standing by, or any dirt get into the _Hollows_ of the _Face_ of the _Letter_, that Film or Dirt will fill or choak up the _Face_ of the _Letter_, and Print Black; and is called a _Pick_; because the _Press-man_ with the point of a Needle, picks it out.

_Pidgeon-holes._ See § 22. ¶ 24.

_Plattin._ } _Plattin-hooks._ } _Plattin-pan._ } See §9. ¶ 18 _Plattin-plate._ }

_Play with Quadrats._ See Customs.

_Plow._ See § 20. ¶ 5.

_Points._ See § 11. ¶ 19. Also , ; : . - ? ! (’) [ * § †, and other marks, are all by _Printers_ and _Founders_ called _Points_.

_Point-holes._ The two Holes the _Points_ prick in a Sheet of Paper. See § 22. ¶ 7.

_Point-Screws._ See § 11. ¶ 9.

_Press._ See § 10.

_Press-man._ See § 24. ¶ 1.

_Press goes._ When the _Press-men_ are at Work, the _Press_ is said to _Go_.

_Press goes Hard_, _Heavy_. See § 24. ¶ 5. and _Press goes Easie_, _Light_.

_Press stands still._ When the _Press-men_ are not at Work, the _Press_ is said to _stand still_.

_Press-stone._ See § 11. ¶ 17.

_Proof._ See § 24. ¶ 18.

_Proof Letters._ See § 16. ¶ 2.

_Proof Press._ See _Empty Press_.

_Print Hand._ See Plate 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.

_Pull_---- _Easie_, _Long_, _Short_, _Soft_. See § 24. ¶ 5.

_Punch._ See § 13. ¶ 1.

_Py._ when a _Page_ is broken, those broken _Letters_ are called _Py_. See _Broken Letter_.

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_Quadrats._ See § 19. ¶ 1.

_Quarters._ _Quarto’s_, _Octavo’s_ and _Twelves Forms_ are _Imposed_ in _Quarters_. They are called _Quarters_, not from their equal divisions; but because they are _Imposed_ and _Lockt up_ apart. Thus half the _Short-Cross_ in a _Twelves Form_ is called a _Quarter_, though it be indeed but one Sixth part of the _Form_.

_Quoins._ See § 8.

_Quotation Quadrats_, Are _Cast_ the heighth of the _Quotation_. They are _Cast_ of different _Bodies_, that the _Compositer_ may have choice of them to _Justifie_ his _Notes_ or _Quotations_ exactly against the designed _Line_ of the _Page_.

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_Racks._ See § 11. ¶ 22. & § 12. ¶ 19.

_Rag._ When _Letter Cast_ has a Bur on any of its edges, that Bur is called a _Rag_.

_Register._ See § 15. ¶ 1. & § 24. ¶ 7.

_Register-sheet._ The Sheet or Sheets Printed to make _Register_ with.

_Reteration._ The _Second Form_, or the _Form_ Printed on the backside of the _White Paper_.

_Revise._ See § 23.

_Ribs._ See § 10. ¶ 8. & § 11. ¶ 15.

_Riglet._ Is a sort of _Furniture_ of an equal Thickness all its Length. It is _Quadrat_ high, of several Thicknesses, viz. a _Nomparel_, _Brevier_, _Long-primmer_, _Pica_, &c. Thick.

_Rince the Form._ See § 22. ¶ 2.

_Rincing-Trough._ The Trough _Forms_ are _Rinced_ in.

_Rise._ A _Form_ is said to _Rise_, when in Rearing it off the _Correcting-stone_ no Letter or _Furniture_, &c. stay behind. See § 22. ¶ 7.

_Rounce._ See § 11. ¶ 16.

_Rowl up the Ball Leathers._ See § 24. ¶ 18.

_Rub Letter._ See § 19. ¶ 4.

_Rubs not._ When the _Shank_ is _Cast_ too _Thin_, that in Rubbing part of the _Face_ or the _Topping_ or _Footing_ _Rubs_ away: _Founders_ say, _It does not Rub_.

_Rubs well._ When the _Shank_ of a _Letter_ has a proper Thickness, _Founders say, It Rubs well_.

_Rub out Inck._ See § 24. ¶ 11.

_Rules._ viz. _Brass Rules_. See § 2. ¶ 2.

_Run in the Carriage._ See § 24. ¶ 15.

_Runs on Sorts_, when _Matter_ runs much on some few Sorts of _Letters_, they say, _it Runs on Sorts_, See _Sorts_.

_Run out from Copy._ See _Drive out_.

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_Scaboard._ See § 8.

_Second at the Press._ See § 24. ¶ 15.

_Second Pull._ See § 11. ¶ 16. Considerations 8. & § 24. ¶ 15.

_Sets Foul._ See _foul Proof_.

_Sets Clean._ See _Clean Proof_.

_Sets Close._ See _Get in_.

_Sets Wide._ See _Drive out_.

_Set out Paper._ See § 25. ¶ 5.

_Set the Rounce._ See § 24. ¶ 3.

_Sets off._ Work that is newly _Wrought off_ at the _Press_ often _Sets off_, especially if it be _Fat Beaten_ with _Soft Inck_: For when it comes to be _Beaten_, or sometimes only hard prest by the _Book-binder_, the moist _Inck_ spreads and delates it self round about the _Face_ of every _Letter_, and sullies and stains the whole _White Paper_.

_Shake._ See § 19. ¶ 1.

_Shank_, the square _Mettle_ the _Face_ of a _Letter_ stands on, is called the _Shank_ of a _Letter_.

_Sheeps-foot._ See § 11. ¶ 20.

_Shooting-stick._ See § 9. ¶ 2.

_Short-cross._ See _Chase_.

_Short-Page._ See § 12. ¶ 5.

_Side-stick._ See § 8.

_Signature._ See § 22. ¶ 4.

_Sinck Matrices._ See _Sinck Punches_.

_Sinck Punches._ See § 17. ¶ 1.

_Slice._ See § 11. ¶ 11.

_Sliding-Gage._ See § 12. ¶ 4.

_Sliding-Socket._ See § 12. ¶ 4.

_Small Numbers._ Under 1500 _Laid on_ is accounted a _Small Number_. See _Great Numbers_; and See _Lay on_.

_Smoak Vent._ See § 18. ¶ 1.

_Smout._ Workmen when they are out of constant Work, do sometimes accept of a Day or twos Work, or a Weeks Work at another Printing-house: this By-work they call _Smouting_.

_Soaking Pull._ See § 24. ¶ 5.

_Soft Pull._ ibid.

_Soft Inck._ _Inck_ or _Varnish_ moderately boiled. See § 11. ¶ 23.

_Solace._ See Customs.

_Sop the Balls._ When a _Press-man_ has taken too much _Inck_, he is said to _Sop the Balls_.

_Sorts._ The _Letters_ that lye in every _Box_ of the _Case_ are separately called _Sorts_ in _Printers_ and _Founders_ Language; Thus a is a _Sort_, b is a _Sort_, c is a _Sort_, _&c._

_Space Thick_, _Space Thin_. See § 12. ¶ 1.

_Spindle._ See § 11. ¶ 12. 16.

_Spirit._ See _Devil_.

_Spring._ See § 15. ¶ 1.

_Squabble._ A _Page_ or _Form_ is _Squabbled_ when the _Letter_ of one or more Lines are got into any of the adjacent _Lines_; or that the _Letter_ or _Letters_ are twisted about out of their square Position.

_Stem._ The strait _Flat_ stroaks of a straight _Letter_ is called _Stem_. See § 14. ¶ 1.

_Stick._ The _Composing-stick_ commonly so called.

_Stickfull._ See § 22. ¶ 4.

_Stiff Justifying._ See § 22. ¶ 4.

_Stirring-Pote._ See § 18. ¶ 2.

_Stoak-hole._ See § 18. ¶ 1.

_Stoaking-Rod._ A Rod of thick Wyer put into such an Handle as is the Handle of a _Letter-Ladle_. Founders use it to stir up the Fire in the _Furnace_.

_Stone._ See § 19. ¶ 1.

_Stool._ See § 15. ¶ 1.

_Stop._ See § 19. ¶ 1.

_Strip a Form._ See § 22. ¶ 2.

_Stroaks_, are fat, lean, fine, hair. See § 14. ¶ 2.

_Superiour Letters_, are often set to _Marginal Notes_: They are _Letters_ of a _Small Face_, high _Justifyed_ by the Founder in the _Mold_ near the _Top-Line_.

_Swash-Letters._ See Plate 15.

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_Tache._ A small Board with _Notches_ in its Fore-edge; either nailed upon the Fore-edge of the _Work-Bench_, or screwed into the _Vice_; so as the _Notches_ may stand forwards to rest the _Shank_ of a _Punch_ in. See § 12 ¶ 9.

_Tail of Letters._ See § 14. ¶ 2.

_Take off._ See Customs.

_Taking off._ See § 22. ¶ 3.

_Take up._ See § 22. ¶ 3.

_Take up a Sheet._ See Customs.

_Take Inck._ See § 24. ¶ 10.

_Teze Wooll, or Hair_. See § 24. ¶ 18.

_Thick Letter._ A _Fount of Letter_ that _Rubs_ not high enough into the _Neck_ is called _Thick Letter_; and consequently will _Drive out Matter_. See § 17. ¶ 2.

_Thick Space._ See § 13. ¶ 1.

_Thin Space_, ought by a strict orderly and methodical measure to be made of the Thickness of the seventh part of the _Body_; though _Founders_ make them indifferently Thicker or Thinner.

_Throat._ See § 15. ¶ 1. & 6.

_Till._ See § 10. ¶ 6.

_Toe of the Spindle._ See § 11. ¶ 12.

_Token._ See § 25. ¶ 5.

_Token Sheet._ See § 24. ¶ 9. 15.

_Tongue._ See § 20. ¶ 3.

_Tooth of the Plow._ The pointed edge that Cuts the Groove in the bottom of the Shanks in the Blocks. See § 21. ¶ 5.

_Transpose._ See § 22. ¶ 7. & § 23.

_Turn for a Letter._ It often happens when _Matter_ Runs upon _Sorts_, especially in _Capitals_, or some other Sorts seldom used, that the _Compositer_ wants that Sort the _Matter Runs on_; wherefore he is loath to _Destribute Letter_ for that Sort; or perhaps his _Case_ is otherwise Full. Wherefore instead of that _Letter_ or Sort, he _Turns_ a _Letter_ of the same Thickness, with the _Foot_ of the _Shank_ upwards, and the _Face_ downwards; which _Turned Letter_ being easie to be seen, he afterwards when he can accommodate himself with the right Sort, takes out, and puts the right _Letter_ in its room. It is also a word used jocosely in the _Chappel_, when any of the Workmen complain of want of Money, or any thing else, he shall by another Workman be answered, _Turn for it_, viz. Make shift for it.

_Tympan._ See § 10. ¶ 10.

_Tympan-Cloath._ See § 24. ¶ 18.

_Tympan-sheet._ See § 24. ¶ 7.