Chapter 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.