154 r HINTING. 



PKTNTING. 



Typog^'raphy (Gr. tupos, a type, and grapho, I write). — The 

 art of printing ; or the operation of impressing letters and 

 words on forms of types. 



Anastatic Printing (Gr. anastasis, a setting up again). — A 

 process by which the productions of typograpliy, lithog- 

 raphy, or engraving may be transferred from the originals 

 without injury to them, and afterwards fixed on metal or 

 wood, so as to be printed from again. 



Calking. — A method of transferring a print or design by cover- 

 ing the back of it with black-lead or with some kind of 

 chalk, laying it upon a sheet of clean paper, and then 

 tracing the outlines with a hard point. 



Case. — The receptacle for type, divided into numerous com- 

 partments. 



Chap'el. — A printer's workhouse ; also, an association of work- 

 men in a printing-office. 



Chase. — An iron frame used to confine types when set in 

 columns or pages. 



Chro^mo-Lithog'raphy. — The obtaining lithographic impres- 

 sions b^ means of colored inks. 



Cliro'mo-Typog'raphy. — A French process for printing letter- 

 press in colors. 



Coffin. — A wooden frame enclosing the stone on whicli the 

 form is imposed. 



Compos'ing. — Setting type. 



Composi tion. — The act of setting types or characters in the 

 composing-stick to form lines, and of arranging the lines 

 in a galley to make a column or page, and from this to 

 make a form. 



Copy. — The manuscript, or original of a book, given to be 

 printed. 



Em. — The square of the body of a type. 



En. — Half of the dimensions of an em. 



Fat. — Such type-work as contains much blank space, and is 

 consequently easily set up and profitable to the workmen. 



Font. — An assortment of type in definite proportions. 



Form. — The type set Up and locked in a chase, ready for print- 

 ing. 



Galley. — A frame which receives the types from the com- 

 po.sing-stick. 



