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Alum.

A piece of ordinary alum used by compositors for hardening the fingers in distributing.

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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.

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All Out.
All up.
Alloy.
Alterations.
Altering margin.
Alum.
American hard packing.
Ampersand.
Ancient customs.
Anglo-French machine.
Antiqua.