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Roller. A wooden cylinder covered with 

 composition, which, set in an iron frame, re- 

 volves upon a rod, and is used for inking 

 type. 



Rounce. The handle for running in and 

 out the carriage of a hand press. 



Round pick. A dot in a letter in a stereo- 

 type plate caused by an air bubble. 



Running title. The title of the book or sub- 

 ject placed at the top of the pages. 



Runs on sorts. Requiring an inordinate pro- 

 portion of particular letters. 



Saw-block. A box similar to a carpenter's 

 miter-block, to guide in cutting furniture, etc. 



Schedule. A sheet of paper passed with the 

 make-up, containing folios, on which the com- 

 positor marks his name opposite to the pages 

 set by him. 



Set off. When sheets that are newly worked 

 off soil those that come in contact with them, 

 they are said to set-off. 



Shank. The metal body upon which the 

 face of a letter stands. 



Sheep's foot. An iron hammer with a claw 

 end. 



Sheetwise. When the pages of a sheet are 

 imposed in two forms, which are backed in 

 printing. 



Shooting stick. A wedge shaped instrument 

 for locking up a form. 



Short cross. The short bar which, crossing 

 the long bar, divides the chase into quarters. 



Shoulder. The surface of the shank of a 

 type not covered by the letter. 



Side sorts. Types in the side and upper 

 boxes of a case, consisting of letters not fre- 

 quently used. 



Side sticks. Sloping furniture on the out- 

 side of. the pages next to the chase, where the 

 quoins are inserted. 



Signature. A letter or a figure used at the 

 bottom of the first page of a sheet, to direct 

 the binder in placing the sheets in a volume. 



Slice galley. A galley with an upper mova- 

 ble bottom, called a slice, used for pages and 

 jobs too large to be lifted by the fingers. 



Slug. A thick lead. Sometimes with a 

 word or figure on top, used to denote the own- 

 ership of matter on galleys. 



Slur. A blurred impression in a printed 

 sheet. 



Solid pick. A letter in a stereotype plate 

 filled up with metal, resulting from an imper- 

 fect mold. 



Sorts. The letters in the several case boxes 

 are separately called sorts, in printers' and 

 founders' language. 



Space rules. Fine lines cast type high, and 

 of even ems in length, for table and algebra- 

 ical work. 



Spaces. Low blank types used to separate 

 words. 



Squabble. A page or form is squabbled 

 when the letters are twisted out of a square 

 position. 



Stand. The frame on which the cases are 

 placed. 



Stem. The vertical strokes of a type. 



Stereotype printing. Printing from stereo- 

 typed plates. 



Stet. Written opposite to a word in a proof, 

 to signify that the word erroneously struck out 

 shall remain. 



Sub. A compositor .occasionally employed 

 on a daily paper, to fill the place of an absen-' 

 tee. 



Superior letters. Letters of a small face, 

 cast by the founder near the top of the line. 



Table-work. Matter consisting partly of 

 rules and figures. 



Take, or Taking. A given portion of copy. 



Token. Two hundred and fifty sheets. 



Turn for a letter. When a sort runs short, 

 a letter of the same thickness is substituted, 

 placed bottom upward. 



Tympan. A frame covered with parchment 

 or muslin and attached to the press-bed to lay 

 the sheet on before printing. 



Underlay. A piece of paper or card placed 

 under types or cuts to improve the impression. 



Upper case. The case containing capital 

 and small capital letters, fractions, etc. 



Verso. Left-hand page. 



Wayz- goose. A term given in England to 

 the annual dinner customary among printers 

 there during the summer months. 



White line. A line of quadrates. 



White page. A blank page. 



White paper. Until the second side of a 

 sheet is printed, pressmen call the heap white 

 paper. 



Work and turn. When a sheet is printed 

 half-sheetwise, the paper must be turned and 

 worked on the second side. 



Working in pocket. When the hands share 

 equally their earnings on a work. 



Telegraph, The. The word is Greek, 

 meaning "to write from a distance." The 

 Greeks never thought of doing such a thing. 

 Like most scientific designations, it is a made- 

 up word out of that wonderful tongue. Before 

 Morse's time it had come to mean the giving 

 of any information from afar. The ideas of 

 speech, quick delivery, are involved. If time 

 is not the essential, we may go or send. In- 

 dians use columns of smoke. We use signals 

 and the heliograph. Vessels at sea have long 

 used visual telegraphic signals. But as soon as 

 it was known that electricity could be sent 

 long distances over wires, human genius began 



