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Fat. Poetry and leaded matter. 



Fat face, or fat letter. Broad stemmed 

 letter. 



Father of the chapel. President or chair- 

 man of a composing room or press room, chosen 

 by the hands. 



Feed guide. An implement attached to a 

 press to aid in correct feeding. 



Feeding. Supplying the press with sheets. 



First form. The form first printed, which 

 generally contains the first page of a sheet. 



Fly. The person or apparatus that takes 

 off the sheets from the press. 



Folio. Two pages to a form. 



Font. A complete assortment of type, of 

 the same nick, body, and face, put up by type 

 founders in accordance with an ascertained 

 ratio. 



Foot slicks. Sloping pieces of furniture 

 placed at the bottom of pages, between which 

 and the chase the quoins are driven to fasten 

 the pages. 



Form. The pages when imposed in a chase. 



Foul proof. A proof with many faults 

 marked in it. 



Fountain. Reservoir for ink, attached to ! 

 printing presses. 



Friar. A light patch in a printed sheet, ; 

 caused by defective rolling. 



Frisket. An iron frame fastened by a hinge 

 to the upper part of the tympan, to hold the j 

 sheet of paper fast as it goes in and comes \ 

 from the press. 



Fudge. To contrive without proper materials. 



Full press. When two men work at the ; 

 press with hand rollers. 



Furni'ure. Strips of wood or metal placed 

 around and between pages to make the proper 

 margin. 



Galley. A wooden or brass flat oblong tray, 

 with side and head ledges, for holding type 

 when composed. 



Galley slaves. An ancient term of derision 

 applied by pressmen to compositors. 



Gauge. A strip of reglet with a notch in it, 

 passed with the make-up, to denote the length 

 of the pages. 



Gauge-pin. An instrument to aid in feed- 

 ing job presses correctly. 



Get in. To set close. 



Good color. Sheets printed neither too black 

 nor too light. 



Guide. A strip of metal frequently used to 

 denote the last line of copy set. 



Gutter-sticks. Furniture used in imposition 

 to separate the pages. 



Half press. When but one person works at 

 (he press. 



Half title. The title "of a book inserted in 

 the upper portion of the first page of matter. 



Hanging indention. Where successive lines 

 are set-in an em or more beyond the first line. 



Head sticks. Furniture put at the head of 

 pages in imposition, to make margin. 



Hell. The receptacle for broken or battered 

 letters ; the old metal box ; the shoe. 



High-line. Term applied to a type that 

 ranges above the rest in a line. 



High (or low) to paper. Applied to a type 

 cast higher or lower than the rest of the font. 



Hollow quadrates. Metal quadrates mortised 

 for the insertion of types, etc. 



Horse. The stage on the bank on which 

 pressmen set the heap of paper. 



Horsing. Charging for work before it is ex- 

 ecuted. 



Imposing. Arranging and locking up a form 

 of type in a chase. 



Imposing stone. The stone on which com- 

 positors impose and correct forms. 



Imprint. The name of the printer or of the 

 publisher appended to jobs or title pages. 



Inferior letters. Small letters cast near the 

 bottom of the line. 



Inset. Same as off cut. 



Jeff. To throw for the first choice with em 

 quadrates instead of dice. 



Justifying. Spacing out lines accurately. 



Keep in. To crowd in by thin spacing. 



Keep out. To drive out or expand matter 

 by wide spacing. 



Kerned letter. Type of which a part of the 

 face hangs over the body. 



Laying cases. Filling cases with a font of 

 new type. 



Laying pages. Placing pages of type on the 

 stone in a proper order for imposition. 



Leaders. Dots or hyphens placed at inter- 

 vals of one or more ems in length, to guide the 

 eye across the line to the folio in tables of con- 

 tents, etc. 



Leads. Thin strips of metal cast of various 

 thicknesses, quadrate-high, to separate lines of 

 type. 



Lean. Close and solid matter. 



Lean face. Light, thin type. 



Letter hangs. When the page is out of 

 square. 



Letter-press printing. Printing from types. 



Ligatures. Two or more letters cast on the 

 same shank, as ff, fi, fl, ffi, ffl, ae, 03. 



Line formers. Brass rule bent in various 

 shapes to aid in making curved lines of type. 



Locking up. Tightening up a form by 

 means of quoins. 



Logotypes. The same as ligatures. 



Long cross. The bar that divides a chase 

 the longest way. 



Long pull. When the bar is brought close 

 to the cheek of a press. 



