Alphabetically explaining the abstruse VVords and Phrases that
are used in Typography. VVhich also may serve as an Index to
direct to the most material Concerns contained in this Volumn.
Though I give you a Dictionary of so many Words and Phrases as are
mentioned in these _Exercises_, yet I do not exhibit this as a
_Dictionary_ so perfect, that all the obstruce Words and Phrases used
among _Printers_, _Letter-cutters_ and _Founders_ are here exposed; for
Words and Phrases many times offer themselves either as Discourse or
Contemplation occurs: Therefore such Words and Phrases as have escaped
my Consideration, will, I hope, be discovered by some Printer, or
others, that may have a kindness for Posterity; not only in this Trade,
but in all Trades and Faculties whatsoever: That so a _Dictionary_ may
in time be compleated, that may render so great a number of Words used
in _England_ by _English-men_ intelligible; which now for want of a
proper Repository to store them in, seem not only Aliens to our Nation,
but barbarous to our Understandings.
A
_Abreviations_ are Characters, or else marks on _Letters_, to signifie
either a Word or Syllable. & is the Character for And, ^e is The
abreviated, ^t is That abreviated; and several other such. Straight
stroaks over any of the Vowels abreviates m or n. They have been much
used by Printers in Old Times, to _Shorten_ or _Get in Matter_; but now
are wholly left off as obsolete.
_Accented Letters_ are much used in _Latin_ Authors, and more in
_Greek_. The Vowels are only accented, and are called _Grave_, thus
accented à; _Acute_, thus accented á; _Circumflex_, thus accented â;
and _Deerecis_, thus accented ä.
_Accents_ are Dashes or Marks over the Vowels.
_Air-hole._ See § 18. ¶ 1.
_Ascending Gage._ See § 12. ¶ 5.
_Ashes._ _Letter-Founders_ call the _Skimmings_ of their _Mettle_, and
the Sweepings of their House _Ashes_; and save both, to send to the
Refiners; who with their fierce Fire draw all the _Mettle_ out of the
_Ashes_. See _Fat Ashes_. See _Lean Ashes_.
_Ash-hole._ See § 18. ¶ 1.
_Assidue_ is Thin Brass Plate, such as adorns _Bartholomew_-Fair
Hobby Horses: _Founders_ use it to _Underlay_ the _Body_, or the
_Mouth-piece, &c._ of their _Mold_, if it be too Thin. See § 16.
B
_Back of a Composing-stick._ See § 9. ¶ 4.
_Backside of the Form_ is the underside that touches upon the
_Correcting-stone_ or _Press-stone_.
_Bad Copy._ See § 24. ¶ 4.
_Bad work._ Any Fault at the _Case_, or _Press_, or at the _Furnace_,
or at the _Dressing-block_, &c. is in Workmens Language called _Bad
Work_.
_Bake._ See § 22. ¶ 10.
_Balls._ See § 24. ¶ 10.
_Ball-knife._ An old blunt-edg’d Knife, that _Press-men_ lay by, to
scrape their _Balls_ with.
_Ball-leathers._ See § 24. ¶ 10.
_Ball-Nails._ The _Nails_ that _Ball-leathers_ are Tackt to the
_Ball-stocks_ with.
_Ball-stocks._ See § 11. ¶ 21.
_Balls Take._ See § 11. ¶ 21.
_Beak._ See § 12. ¶ 2.
_Beam._ See § 12. ¶ 4.
_Beard of a Letter_, is the outer angle of the Square Shoulder of the
_Shank_, which reaches almost up to the _Face_ of the _Letter_; and is
commonly scraped off by the _Founder_: As in § 2. ¶ 2.
_Beard-Gage._ See § 13. ¶ 4.
_Bearer._ See § 4. & § 24. ¶ 7.
_Beat._ See § 24. ¶ 13.
_Beat Fat._ If a _Press-man Takes_ too much _Inck_ with his _Balls_, he
_Beats Fat_. The _Black English Faced Letter_ is generally _Beaten Fat_.
_Beat Lean_, is to _Take_ but little _Inck_, and often: All _Small
Letter_ must be _Beaten Lean_.
_Bed._ See § 24. ¶ 2.
_Benvenue._ See Ancient Customs.
_Bite._ See § 24. ¶ 7.
_Blankets._ Woollen Cloath, or White Bays, to lay between the _Tympans_.
_Blocks._ See § 20. ¶ 3.
_Block-Groove._ ibid.
_Body._ See § 1. ¶ 2. & § 15. ¶ 1.
_Botching Matrices._ See § 17. ¶ 3.
_Bottom line._ See § 14. ¶ 2.
_Bottom of the Matrice._ See §. 17. ¶ 1.
_Bottom Plate._ See §. 15. ¶ 1.
_Bow._ See § 15. ¶ 1.
_Brace_, is a Character _Cast_ in _Mettle_ thus marked [Illustration]
The _Compositer_ is to have these _Cast_ of several Breadths, viz. to
several numbers of _Lines_ of a designed _Body_ (most commonly of _Pica
Body_) that they may hook in or Brace so many _Lines_ as his _Copy_ may
shew him; as at _Charge_ is a Brace of four _Lines_. See also § 24. ¶ 1.
_Brass-Rules._ See § 2. ¶ 2.
_Brayer_ is a round _Wooden Rubber_, almost of the fashion of a
_Ball-stock_, but flat at the bottom, and not above three Inches
Diameter: It is used in the _Inck-Block_ to _Bray_ or _Rub Inck_.
_Break_, a piece of a _Line_. Also the _Mettle_ that is contiguous
to the _Shank_ of a _New Cast Letter_: This _Break_ is formed in the
_Mouth-piece_ of the _Letter-mould_, and is called a _Break_, because
it is always broke from the _Shank_ of a _Letter_.
_Breaking off_ is breaking the _Break_ from the _Shank_ of the
_Letter_. See § 19. ¶ 3.
_Brevier._ See § 2. ¶ 2.
_Broad-side_, a Form of one full _Page_, Printed on one side of a whole
Sheet of Paper.
_Broken Letter._ By broken _Letter_ is not meant the breaking of
the _Shanks_ of any of the _Letters_, but the breaking the orderly
Succession the _Letters_ stood in in a _Line_, _Page_, or _Form_, &c.
and mingling the _Letters_ together, which mingled _Letters_ is called
_Py_.
_Bur._ See _Rag_.
C
_Cannon._ See § 2. ¶ 2.
_Card._ When several _Bodies_ of _Letter_ are _Set_ in a _Page_,
_Compositers_ to _Justifie_ that _Page_ to an exact Length, put a
_Card_ to some _White-line_, or other _Break_ and Lengthen out the
_Page_ the thickness of a _Card_. And _Press-men_ also use a _Card_ for
an underlay. See § 22. ¶ 4. &c. § 24. ¶ 7.
_Cards._ About a Quire of Paper, which _Press-men_ use to _Pull_ down
the Spring or rising of a _Form_, which it is many times subject to by
hard _Locking-up_. See § 24. ¶ 4.
_Carriage_, is a part of the _Press_. For which See § 10. ¶ 9. It is
also a part of the _Letter-Mold_: For which See § 15. ¶ 3.
_Case._ See § 3.
_Case lies._ See § 22. ¶ 1.
_Case is full_, viz. a _Case_ full of _Letter_, wanting no Sorts.
_Case is Low._ When a _Case_ grows empty, _Compositers_ say the _Case
is Low_.
_Case Stands still._ When the _Compositer_ is not at Work at his
_Case_, it is said, _The Case stands still_.
_Cassie Paper._ See § 25. ¶ 5.
_Cast_, is to _Cast Letter_. See § 19. ¶ 1.
_Cast off Copy._ See § 22. ¶ 9.
_Catch of the Bar._ See § 11. ¶ 11.
_Chappel._ See Customs.
{ _Paper_ with great _Pages_.
_Charge_, is to fill { a _Page_ with long and many _Lines_.
{ a _Line_ with many _Letters_.
{ a _Pot_ with Stubs and _Antimony_.
_Chase._ See § 9. ¶ 6.
_Cheeks_, is a part of the _Press_; for which See § 10. ¶ 2. and part
of the _Dressing-block-groove_. For which See § 20. ¶ 3.
_Choak._ If a _Form_ be not Washt in due time, the _Inck_ will get
into the Hollows of the _Face_ of the _Letter_: And that getting in of
the _Inck_ is called _Choaking_ of the _Letter_, or _Choaking_ of the
_Form_.
_Claw_ of the _Sheeps-foot_. See § 11. ¶ 20.
_Clean Proof._ When a _Proof_ has but few Faults in it, it is called a
clean _Proof_.
_Close Matter._ _Matter_ with few _Breaks_ or _Whites_.
_Close Work._ ibid.
_Colation Books._ See § 25. ¶ 4.
_Come._ When the _Face_ and _Shank_ of a _Letter_ is _Cast_ perfect,
_Founders_ say, _It Comes well_; if unperfect they say, It does not
come, or _It comes not well_.
_Come Down_, the _Toe_ of the _Spindle_ is said to _Come down_ by
_Pulling_ the _Bar_: So is the _Bar_ when it is _Pull’d_ near the
hither _Cheek_: Also, the _Press-man_ is said to _Come down the Form_
with his _Balls_: For which See § 24. ¶ 13.
_Companion._ See § 24. ¶ 15.
_Comes off._ A _Form_ that receives a good _Impression_, _Comes off
well_, if a bad _Impression_, it _Comes off ill_, or it _Comes not well
off_. Also a phrase used in _Gathering_ of _Books_; for a _Heap_ that
is _Gathered off_ is said to _Come off_. See § 25. ¶ 3.
_Composing Rule._ See § 24. ¶ 4.
_Compositer._ He that _Composes_ or _Sets_ the _Letters_.
_Composing-stick._ See § 9. ¶ 4.
_Copy-money._ See Customs.
_Cording-quire._ See § 25. ¶ 5.
_Correct._ When the _Corrector_ reads the _Proof_, or the _Compositer_
mends the _Faults_ he markt in the _Proof_, they are both said to
_Correct_; the _Correcter_ the _Proof_, the _Compositer_ the _Form_.
_Correcting-stone._ See § 6.
_Corrections._ the _Letters_ markt in a _Proof_ are call’d
_Corrections_. See § 22. ¶ 8.
_Counter Punch._ See § 13. ¶ 2.
_Counting off Copy._ See § 22. ¶ 9.
_Coyns._ See § 8.
_Cramp Irons._ See § 11. ¶ 15.
_Cross Long, Short._ See _Chase_.
_Cull Paper._ See § 25. ¶ 5.
_Cut the Frisket._ See § 24. ¶ 7.
D
_Dance._ See § 22. ¶ 7.
_Dele._ See § 23.
_Destribute._ See § 22. ¶ 3.
_Destributing-stick._ See ibid.
_Devil._ The _Press-man_ sometimes has a Week-Boy to _Take Sheets_, as
they are Printed off the _Tympan_: These Boys do in a Printing-House,
commonly black and Dawb themselves; whence the Workmen do Jocosely call
them _Devils_; and sometimes _Spirits_, and sometimes _Flies_.
_Direction_, the word that stands alone on the Right Hand in the bottom
_Line_ of a _Page_.
_Direction-line._ The _Line_ the _Direction_ stands in.
_Double Letter._ æ œ st sh, and several others _Cast_ on one _Shank_
are called _Double Letters_: ſ and f have several _Ascending Letters_
joyned to them, because their _Beaks_ hanging over their _Stems_ would
(were they not _Cast_ on one _Shank_) ride upon the tops of the Stems
of the adjoyning ascending _Letter_.
_Double._ A Sheet that is twice _Pulled_ and lifted never so little off
the _Form_ after it was first _Pulled_, does most commonly (through
the Play of the _Joynts_ of the _Tympan_) take a double _Impression_:
This Sheet is said to _Double_. Or if the _Press-man Run in_ so, as the
Fore-side of the _Plattin_ Print with the _First Pull_ into part of the
_Second Pull_, or the hind edge of the _Plattin Print_ with his _Second
Pull_ into part of his _First Pull_; either of these twice Printing is
called _Doubling_. _Doubling_ also happens through the loose _Hanging_
of the _Plattin_, and through too much play the Tennants of the _Head_
may have in the _Mortesses_ of the _Cheeks_, and indeed through many
Wearings and crasienesses that often happens in several parts of the
_Press_. See § 24. ¶ 18.
_Dress_ a _Chase_, or _Dress_ a _Form_, is all one. It is to fit the
_Pages_ and the _Chase_ with _Furniture_ and _Quoins_. See § 22. ¶ 7.
_Dress Letter._ See § 21. ¶ 1.
_Dressing Block._ See § 20. ¶ 3.
_Dressing Block-groove._ ibid.
_Dressing Hook._ See § 20. ¶ 1.
_Dressing Knife._ See § 20. ¶ 4.
_Dressing Sticks._ See § 19. ¶ 6.
_Drive out._ When a _Compositer Sets Wide_, he is said to _Drive out_
or _Run out_. In _Founding_, If _Letter_ be _Cast_ too Thick in the
_Shank_ it _Drives out_, or if it be _Cast_ too Thick in any part of
the _Shank_, as the _Head_, the _Foot_, the sides at _Head_ or _Foot_,
or _Body_ at _Head_ or _Foot_: They say, _It Drives out at Head_, _It
Drives out at Foot_, &c.
E
_Empty Case._ See § 22. ¶ 3. & _See Case is Low._
_Easie Pull._ See § 24. ¶ 5.
_Easie Work._ See § 22. ¶ 4. And _Great Letter_ and a _Small Form_ the
_Press-man_ calls _Easie Work_.
_Empty Press._ A _Press_ that Stands by, which no Workman Works
at: Most commonly every _Printing-House_ has one of them for a
_Proof-Press_: viz. to make _Proves_ on.
_English Body._ See § 1. ¶ 2.
_English Face._ Plate 26. 27. are _English Face Letters_.
_Even Page._ The _First Page_ of a _Sheet_ or _Form_ is called an _Odd
Page_, but the _Second_, _Fourth_, _Sixth_, or any other even numbred
_Page_ is called an _Even Page_. See § 22. ¶ 7.
F
_Face of a Letter_, See § 13. ¶ 13.
_Face of a Page, or Form._ The Superficies of a _Page_ or _Form_, where
the _Faces_ of every _Letter_ lies in the same Plain.
_Face-Gage._ See § 12. ¶ 5.
_Face of a Matrice._ See § 17. ¶ 1.
_Fat Ashes._ _Founders_ call their Ashes _Fat_, if they are
considerably Heavy, because then they have much _Mettle_ in them.
_Fat._ See _Beat Fat_.
_Fat Face_, or _Fat Letter_, is a broad Stemmed _Letter_.
_Female Gage_, _Screws_, &c. The _Hollow Gage_, or _Hollow Screw_ that
receives its _Match Gage_ or _Screw_, &c.
_First._ See § 24. ¶ 15.
_First Form._ The _Form_ the _White Paper_ is Printed on, which
generally by Rule ought to have the _First Page_ of the Sheet in it.
_First Page._ See § 22. ¶ 7.
_First Pull._ See § 11. ¶ 16. & § 24. ¶ 7. Considerations 8. & § 24. ¶
15.
_Flat-Gage._ See § 12. ¶ 3.
_Flat Table._ See § 12. § 8.
_Fly._ See _Devil_.
_Follow._ viz. _See if it follows_, is a Term used as well by the
_Corrector_ as by the _Compositer_ and _Press-man_. It is used by
the _Corrector_ and _Compositer_ when they examine how the beginning
_Matter_ of a succeeding _Page_ agrees with the ending _Matter_ of the
precedent _Page_: And how the _Folio’s_ of those _Pages_ properly and
numerically follow and succeed one another, Lest the _Pages_ should be
_Transposed_. But the _Press-man_ only examines that the _Folio_ and
beginning word of the _Second Page_, and _Signature_ of the _First_
and _Third Page_ (when the _Reteration_ is on the _Press_) follows the
_Folio_ and _Direction_ of the _First Page_, and the _Signature_ of
the _Third Page_ follows the _Signature_ of the _First Page_, orderly
according to the Volumne, lest the _Form_ should be laid wrong on the
_Press_.
_Foot of the Letter._ The _Break-end_ of the _Shanck_ of a _Letter_.
_Foot-line._ See § 14. ¶ 12.
_Foot of a Page._ The bottom or end of a _Page_. See § 22. ¶ 7.
_Foot-Step._ See § 11. ¶ 21. & § 24. ¶ 7. & Considerations 11.
_Foot-stick._ See § 8.
_Form._ The Pages when they are fitted into a _Chase_.
_Foul Proof._ When a _Proof_ has many _Faults_ markt in it.
_Fount._ Is the whole number of _Letters_ that are _Cast_ of the same
_Body_ and _Face_ at one time. See § 2. ¶ 2.
_Frisket._ See § 10.
_Froze out._ In Winter when the Paper is Froze, and the _Letter_ Froze,
so as the Workmen cannot Work. They say, _They are Froze out_.
_Fryer._ When the _Balls_ do not _Take_, the _Un-taking_ part of
the _Balls_ that touches the _Form_ will be left White, or if the
_Press-men_ Skip over any part of the _Form_, and touch it not with
the _Balls_, though they do _Take_, yet in both these cases the White
places is cal’d a _Fryer_.
_Full Form_ or _Page_. A _Form_ or _Page_ with few or no _Breaks_ or
_White-lines_.
_Full Press._ When two Men Work at the _Press_. It is called a _Full
Press_.
_Furnace._ See § 18.
_Furnace open_, or _Wind Furnace_. See § 18. ¶ 2.
_Funnel._ See § 18.
_Furniture._ See § 8.
G
_Gage._ Gages mentioned in this Volumne have an adjunct Name, as _Flat
Gage_, _Joynt Gage_, _Italick Gage_, _Long Gage_, _Male Gage_, _Short
Gage_, _Standing Gage_, _Steel Gage_, which See respectively.
_Galley._ See § 5.
_Galley-Slave._ See the Customs.
_Gallows._ See § 10.
_Garter._ See § 11. ¶ 14.
_Gather Books._ See § 25. ¶ 3.
_Geat_, is the little Spout or Gutter made in the Brim of _Casting
Ladles_.
_Get in._ _Matter_ is _Got in_ in a _Line_, _Page_, _Sheet_ or _Book_,
if _Letter_ be Thinner _Cast_ than the _Printed Copy_ the _Compositer
Sets_ by. Or _Matter_ is _Got in_ if the _Compositer Sets Closer_: Or
if he _Widens_ his _Measure_; or puts more _Lines_ in a _Page_. See a
_Line_.
_Girts._ See § 11. ¶ 21.
_Good Colour._ Sheets Printed neither too Black or too White.
_Good of the Chappel._ Forfeitures and other _Chappel_ Dues are
Collected for the _Good of the Chappel_, viz. to be spent as the
_Chappel_ approves.
_Good Work_, is called so in a twofold sense: The Master-Printer calls
it _Good Work_ when the _Compositers_ and _Press-men_ have done their
duty; and the Work-men call it _Good Work_, if it be _Light Easie
Work_, and they have a good price for it.
_Go up the Form._ See § 24. ¶ 13.
_Great Cannon._ See § 2. ¶ 2.
_Great Numbers._ See _Lay on_. Above 2000 Printed on one Sheet are
accounted _Great Numbers_.
_Great Primmer._ See § 2. ¶ 2.
_Gutter-stick._ See § 8.
H
_Hag._ See § 15. ¶ 1.
_Half a Line._ When _Letter Drives out_ or _Gets in_ in the _Body_, in
a number of _Lines_, _Founders_ say, _It Drives out or Gets in_ Half
a _Line_, a whole _Line_, a quarter of a _Line_, &c. _viz._ _Half a
Body_, a _whole Body_, a quarter, _&c._ of a _Body_.
_Half a Press._ When but one Man Works at the _Press_, It is called
_Half a Press_.
_Half Work._ He that Works but three days in the Week, does but _Half
Work_.
_Hammer end of a Punch._ See § 13. ¶ 13.
_Hangs._ See _Letter Hangs_. & § 22. ¶ 4.
_Hang the Plattin._ See § 24. ¶ 4.
_Hang up Paper._ See § 25. ¶ 1.
_Hard Inck._ _Inck very well Boyled._ See § 11. ¶ 23.
_Hard Justifying._ See § 22. ¶ 4.
_Hard Pull._ See § 24. ¶ 5.
_Hard Work._ See § 22. ¶ 4. And small _Letter_ and a _Large Form_,
_Press-men_ call _Hard Work_.
_Head._ See § 10. ¶ 5.
_Head Line._ See § 14. ¶ 2.
_Head of a Page._ The top or beginning of a _Page_. See § 22. ¶ 7.
_Head-stick._ See § 8.
_Heap._ So many Reams or Quires as is _Set out_ by the
_Warehouse-keeper_ for the _Press-man_ to _Wet_, is call’d a _Heap_:
But then it is call’d a _Dry Heap_, till the _Press-man_ have _Wet_ it,
and then it is indeed called a _Heap_. See also § 25.
_Heap holds out._ When it hath its full intended Number of Sheets.
_Heavy Work._ See _Hard Work_.
_Heighth._ See _High against Paper_.
_High against Paper._ If a _Punch_ be not Sunk deep enough into the
_Matrice_, the _Letter Cast_ will not stand high enough against Paper.
And if it be Sunk too deep into the _Matrice_, the _Letter Cast_ will
be too _High_ against Paper. See § 17. ¶ 2.
_Holds out_, or _Holds not out_. These Terms are applicable to the
Quires of _White-paper_, to _Wrought-off Heaps_, to _Gathered Books_,
and to sorts of _Letter_ &c. If Quires of White Paper have twenty
five Sheets a piece in them, they say, _The Paper holds out five and
twenties_. Of _Wrought off Heaps_, the _Heap_ that _Comes off_ first
in _Gathering_ is said, _Not to Hold out_. Of _Gathered Books_, if
the intended number of perfect _Books_ are _Gathered_, they say the
_Impression Holds out_: But if the intended number of _Perfect Books_
cannot be _Gathered_ off the _Heaps_, they say the _Impression Holds
not out_. And so for Sorts of _Letter_, either when it is in the
_Founding House_, or in the _Printing House_.
_Hole._ By a _Hole_, in Printers dialed, is meant and understood a
place where private Printing is used, _viz._ the Printing of Unlicensed
_Books_, or Printing of other mens _Copies_. Many Printers for Lucre
of Gain have gone into _Holes_, and then their chief care is to get a
_Hole_ Private, and Workmen Trusty and Cunning to conceal the _Hole_,
and themselves.
_Holy-days._ See Customs.
_Hollows of a Letter._ The _Sinking in_ of the _Counter-Punch_ into
the _Punch_ makes these _Hollows_, so does Sculping into the _Face_ of
the _Punch_. See § 9. ¶ 4.
_Hooks._ See _Hags_.
_Horse._ The Form or Bench _Press-men_ set the _Heaps_ of Paper on. See
also Customs.
_Horse-flesh._ If any Journeyman set down in his Bill on _Saturday_
Night more Work than he has done, that Surplusage is called
_Horse-flesh_: And he abates it in his next Bill.
_Hose._ See § 11. ¶ 14.
_Hours._ _Press-men_ reckon their Work by Hours, accounting every
_Token_ to an Hours Work: And though it be the same effectually with
_Tokens_, yet they make their prizes of different Work by the Hour; and
it passes current for a _Token_. If two Men Work at the _Press_ ten
Quires is an Hour; if one Man, five Quires is an Hour.
I
_Jaws._ See § 15. ¶ 6.
_Imperfections of Books._ See § 25. ¶ 3.
_Imperfections of Letters._ When the _Founder_ has not _Cast_ a
proportionable number of each sort of _Letter_, the wanting _Letters_
are called _Imperfections_, as making the rest of the _Fount_
unperfect. See _Sorts_.
_Impose._ See § 22. ¶ 7.
_Impression holds out._ See _Holds out_.
_In-Page._ See _Out-Page_.
_Insertion._ If the _Compositer_ have left out Words or _Lines_, the
_Corrector_ inserts it, and makes this mark ʌ where it is _Left out_,
which is called the mark for _Insertion_. See § 23.
_Joynt flat Gage._ See § 14. ¶ 4.
_Joynts._ See § 10. ¶ 9.
_Inner Tympan._ See § 11. ¶ 10.
_Italick Gage._ See § 12. ¶ 6.
_Justifie a Matrice._ See § 17. ¶ 2.
_Justifie a Mold._ See § 16.
_Justifie a Stick_, viz. a _Composing-stick_. See § 22. ¶ 4.
K
_Keep in_, is a caution either given to, or resolved on, by the
_Compositer_, when there may be doubt of _Driving out_ his _Matter_
beyond his _Counting off_, wherefore he _Sets close_, to _Keep in_.
_Keep out_, is a caution either given to or resolved on, by the
_Compositer_, when there may be doubt of _Getting in_ his _Matter_ too
fast for his _Counting off_: Wherefore he _Sets Wide_, to _Drive_ or
_Keep out_.
_Kern._ See § 19. ¶ 5.
_Kerning-Knife._ See § 19. ¶ 5.
_Kerning-stick._ See § 19. ¶ 5.
_Knife backt Sculptor_, is a Sculptor with a thin edge on its back.
_Knife-file._ A file with a thin edge.
_Knock up Balls._ See § 24. ¶ 10.
_Knock up Books._ See § 25. ¶ 3.
_Knock up a Letter._ It sometimes happens with old _Letter_, that a
_Letter_ may be worn so low that it will not Print well in a _Page_:
The Workman then takes that _Letter_ out of the _Form_, and holds the
_Shank_ of it upon the side of the _Chase_, and with the _Head_ of
the _Shooting-stick_ beats lightly upon the _Foot_ of the _Shank_,
till he have battered _Mettle_ enough out of the _Shank_, to raise it
higher against Paper: If it prove too high against Paper, he Rubs the
bottom of the _Shank_ upon the side of the _Chase_ to rub it down: This
Operation seldom happens, unless another of the same sort of _Letter_
is wanting, and hard to come by: For else the _Compositer_ will bow the
_Letter_, and pop it into a Waste _Box_ in his _Case_, where he puts
all naughty _Letters_, that he may not be troubled with them another
time.
_Knot._ See § 20. ¶ 3.
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.
M
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.
N
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.
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_Vantage._ When a _White-page_ or more happens in a Sheet, the
_Compositer_ calls that _Vantage_: So does the _Press-man_, when a
_Form_ of one _Pull_ comes to the _Press_.
_Varnish._ See § 11. ¶ 23.
_Visorum._ See § 22. ¶ 4.
_Un-lock the Form._ See § 22. ¶ 2.
_Underlaid._ A Phrase used by _Press-men_ for the _Light_ and _Easie_,
or _Heavy_ and _Hard Running in_ of the _Carriage_. Thus they say, _The
Press goes light and easie under Hand_, or it _goes heavy or hard
under Hand_.
_Upper Hand_, when the _Spindle_ goes soft and easie, the _Press-men_
say, _It goes well under Hand_, or _Above Hand_. But the contrary if it
goes _Hard and Heavy_.
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_Wash the Form._ See § 24. ¶ 18.
_Way-goose._ See Customs.
_Weak-Inck._ See _Soft-Inck_.
_Wedge._ See § 20. ¶ 3.
_White-line._ A Line of _Quadrats_.
_White-Page._ A _Page_ that no _Matter_ comes in.
_White-Paper._ Although the first _Form_ be Printed off, yet
_Press-men_ erronically call that _Heap White-Paper_, till the
_Reteration_ be Printed.
_Whole-press._ See _Full-Press_.
_Wind-furnace._ See _Open-furnace_.
_Wind-hole._ See § 18. ¶ 1.
_Wood._ See § 15. ¶ 11.
_Wyer._ See § 15. ¶ 9.