quoin.

A wedge, usually either solid, of wood, or slotted and in pairs, or pieces of metal, by which to lock up or fasten type in a chase or galley. quotation. Any piece of metal furniture of small size. quotation-mark. One of the marks placed at the beginning and end of a quoted word or passage. In English usage one or two inverted commas (`, “') mark the beginning of a quotation, and, correspondingly, one or two apostrophes (",") the close. ratchet. A tool with a notched blade used by printers in clamping a stereotype plate to its block.

recto.

A right-hand page, as of a book. Ordinarily the odd-numbered pages are the rectos, and the evennumbered the reversos.

reference-mark.

A symbol, letter, or figure used to direct the reader from the text to a note or to a section or page of an appendix.

register. (1) Exact correspondence or adjustment in

position of the lines, columns, margins, etc., on one side of a page or leaf with those on the other side. (2) Correct relation of the colors in color-printing, so that no color overlaps or falls short of its proper position.

reglet. A thin wooden strip made less than type-high, and used for making space between lines, as in poster-printing, or to fill blank spaces.

revise. (1) To compare with a previous proof. (2) A proof for revision.

reviser. One who revises literary works or printers' proofs.

ride. To be impressed upon another color, as in lithography or color-printing when colors overlap. roll. (1) A hand-tool for making a continuous line, usually having a brass wheel with a rim cut to the

desired pattern. (2) The cylinder of a printingmachine: an untechnical use.

roller. A rod covered with an elastic composition or with

felt, used in applying ink to printing-surfaces; also, a leather-covered rod used in lithographic printing. roman. A style of ceriphed type or letter whose chief characteristic is its perpendicularity and the greater thickness of its upright strokes than of its horizontal strokes: the most familiar form of letter in books and newspapers; also, a black gothic letter used by the ancient Romans.

rounce.

A cylinder, usually of wood, with a crank and strap attached for moving back and forth the bed of a hand-press.

rout. To cut out or away by scooping or gouging, as mackle in a plate or the like, to improve the printed impression.

rule. (1) A metal strip for handling type; as, a com

posing-rule. (2) A strip of type-high metal (usually brass) for printing a rule or line; also, the impression of a line on the printed page.

rule-case. See CASE.

run in. To omit paragraphs or break-lines to save space; or to alter the position of type, as to fill a vacant space.

running head. A head-line, as of a chapter or an article in a book or periodical, repeated at the head of succeeding or alternate pages.

running title. A title or head-line repeated at the head of succeeding pages, as throughout a book or chapter. scale. In the printing trade, a minimum schedule of

wages fixed by the International Typographical

Union.

schedule. (1) A list of printed pages, the folios of which

are checked off as pages (after correction) are sent to foundry for casting. (2) A list of topics or illustrations furnished as a guide to their order or position in making up the pages of a book.

script. Type in imitation of handwriting. set-off. A smut transferred from a freshly printed sur

face to another sheet, or to the second side of the same sheet, as through the medium of a smutted tympan. Called also off-set. The action of thus smutting is often called setting off.

sew. To fasten together the sections of a book with needle and thread, as distinguished from stitch and wire.

sewing. The fastening together of the sections of a book by passing a thread through each section at its central fold and returning it, after drawing it tight over each band, on the back of the sections: done for each band.

sextodecimo. A book or pamphlet having 16 leaves to

the sheet, the pages being, in size, usually 41⁄2 × 6% inches; hence, loosely, a book having that size of page.

shank. The body part of a type, as distinguished from the shoulder, face, or foot.

sheep's foot. A pressman's tool having a square hammer-head on one end and a claw on the other: used in prying up forms, etc.

sheet-work. Presswork in which the two sides of a sheet are printed from different forms.

shooting-stick. A wooden or metal stick, often with a notch in one end and a head on the other, to be struck with a mallet, for driving quoins.

shoulder. The top of the shank of a type when extending above or below the face of the letter.

side-stick.

A wooden or metal bar placed at the side of the type in a form or galley, and commonly beveled, for use in conjunction with tapering wooden quoins in locking up.

signature. (1) A distinguishing mark, letter, or number placed usually at the bottom of the first page of each form or sheet of a book, to indicate its order to the folder and binder. (2) Hence, the form or sheet on which such a mark is placed, considered as a fractional part of a book-as, The work is printed in 20 signatures." single rule. A type-high brass rule, the face of which shows a single line: (

-).

sink. To depress or drop the upper part of a page, as at the beginning of a chapter, below the level of the full pages.

sinkage. The blank space allowed above type matter, as at the beginning of a chapter. sixteenmo.

Same as SEXTODECIMO.

Often written

16mo.

skiver. Leather split with a knife; particularly, the grain side of split sheepskin, used for bookbinding.

slice-galley. A galley, usually of wood, with a sliding

false bottom to facilitate the transfer of composed type to or from an imposing-stone.

slug. (1) A strip of type-metal thicker than a lead, and less than type-high, for spacing matter, supporting the foot of a column, etc. (2) A strip of metal bearing a type-high number: inserted by a compositor at the beginning of a take to identify the matter set by him. (3) The person who sets a piece of matter marked by a slug.

slur. A blurred portion of an impression.

small capitals. A letter of a form similar to capitals, but smaller, being usually equal in height to the body of the small or lower-case letters.

smudge. A blur, as on a proof, from the smearing of

wet printer's-ink.

smut. A stain, as from wet printer's-ink.

SET-OFF.

Compare

solid. Having no leads or slugs between the lines-as, "A solid page of type."

sort. A type or character considered as a portion of a font, with reference to the number or quantity on hand or in case: usually in the plural. Copy is said to be hard on sorts, or to run on sorts, when it requires an unusual number of certain characters. space. A type of less than type-height, and thinner

than an en quadrat, used to separate words, etc., as in a line. Spaces are known as 3-em, 4-em, 5-em, or 6-em, as their thickness is a proportional fraction of an em. The 3-em spaces are also called thick spaces, the 4-em and 5-em thin spaces, and 6-em or thinner hair spaces. A patent space is made intermediate between a 3-em space and an en quadrat. space-box. One of the boxes in a printer's case in which spaces are kept.

space-mark. A proof-reader's mark (#) indicating that a space or more space is to be inserted.

space-rule. Brass or type-metal single rule cut to even ems and ens of length: used in table-work.

squabble. To skew or twist composed type so as to mix the lines; disarrange, as standing matter, without completely pieing.

standing matter. See MATTER.

stem. An up-and-down stroke of a type-face or letter,