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Jacobi's’s Printers' Vocabulary · S

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S

Is the seventeenth signature of the printer’s alphabet.

1 Safety-valve.
2 Samaritan.
3 Samaritan cases.
4 Samples.
5 Sanscrit.
6 Sanscrit cases.
7 Sat.
8 Saw.
9 Saw bench.
10 Saw block.
11 Saxon.
12 Saxon cases.
13 Scabbard.
14 Scabby.
15 Scale-board.
16 Scale price.
17 Scandinavian.
18 Scan.
19 Scarce sorts.

1 Scissors.
2 Scoring machine.
3 Scrape up.
4 Scratch comma.
5 Scratch figures.
6 Screw chases.
7 Screw composing stick.
8 Screw hammer.
9 Screw press.
10 Screw quoins.
11 Screw stick.
12 Script.
13 Scroofing.
14 Scruple mark.
15 Second at press.
16 Second forme.
17 Seconds mark.
18 Section.
19 Sector machine.
20 Sector.

1 Selected parchments.
2 Selected vellums.
3 Selenotype.
4 Self inking.
5 Semicolon.
6 Sem.
7 Serif.
8 Set.
9 Set clean.
10 Set close.
11 Set foul.
12 Set off.
13 Set-off paper.
14 Set-off sheets.
15 Set out.
16 Set up.
17 Set up close.
18 Set wide.
19 Sets up to himself.
20 Setting rules.

1 Sewer.
2 Sewn.
3 Shafting.
4 Shake.
5 Shammock.
6 Shank.
7 Sharp impression.
8 Shears.
9 Sheepsfoot.
10 Sheet and a half.
11 Sheet dips.
12 Sheet the roller.
13 Sheet work.
14 Sheeted.
15 Shell.
16 Shelving.
17 Sherwin and Cope’s press.
18 Shilling mark.
19 ’Ship.
20 Shoe.

1 Shooter.
2 Shooting stick.
3 Short “and.”
4 Short cross.
5 Short measures.
6 Short numbers
7 Short page.
8 Short pull.
9 Short sorts.
10 Short takes.
11 Short twelves.
12 Shorts.
13 Shorts.
14 Shoulder notes.
15 Shoulder of type.
16 Shuffling.
17 Side flues.
18 Side lay.
19 Side mark.
20 Side-notes.

1 Side-sticks.
2 Sigla.
3 Signature.
4 Sigs.
5 Signature line.
6 Signature page.
7 Signs.
8 Silver bronze.
9 Single cylinder machines.
10 Single frame.
11 Sit.
12 Sixteenmo.
13 Sixteens.
14 Sixteen-to-pica leads.
15 Six-to-pica brass.
16 Six-to-pica leads.
17 Sixty-fourmo.
18 Size.
19 Sized paper.
20 Sizes of cards.

1 Sizes of jobs.
2 Sizes of paper.
3 Sizes of type.
4 Skeleton face.
5 Skeleton forme.
6 Skinks.
7 Slab.
8 Slice.
9 Slice galley.
10 Slip chases.
11 Slip galley.
12 Slips.
13 Slog on.
14 Slugs.
15 Slumming.
16 Slur.
17 Small capitals.
18 Small caps.
19 Small cap. O.
20 Small cards.

1 Small court envelopes.
2 Small double post.
3 Small-faced figures.
4 Small hand paper.
5 Small numbers.
6 Small Pica.
7 Small post.
8 Smout.
9 Soaking pull.
10 Society hands.
11 Soc.
12 Society houses.
13 Soft brass.
14 Soft paper.
15 Soft pull.
16 Soft sized paper.
17 Soft tints.
18 Solace.
19 Solid dig.
20 Solid matter.

1 Solids.
2 S. O. papers.
3 Sop the balls.
4 Sorts
5 Soundings.
6 Soupy
7 S. p.
8 Space barge.
9 Space box.
10 Space lines
11 Space out
12 Space paper.
13 Space rules.
14 Spaces.
15 Spaces (Sizes of).
16 Spanish n.
17 Spanners.
18 Spatterwork.
19 Specimen page.
20 Speed riggers.

1 Spirit.
2 Split fractions.
3 Split rigger.
4 Spoilage.
5 Sponge.
6 Sponge up.
7 Spottiswoode press.
8 Spring.
9 Spring box.
10 Spring brass.
11 Spring of a forme.
12 Spring points.
13 Sprinkled edges.
14 Spur.
15 Squabble.
16 Square twelves.
17 Squashed.
18 ’Stab.
19 Stabbed.
20 Stacks.

1 Stage.
2 Staining paper.
3 Stamps.
4 Standard machine.
5 Standing.
6 Standing press.
7 Stands high.
8 Stands low.
9 Stands Still.
10 Stanhope press.
11 Staple of press.
12 Star.
13 Start.
14 Start working.
15 Steam Chest.
16 Steam cocks.
17 Steam engine
18 Steam gauge.
19 Steam gearing.
20 Steam jacketing.

1 Steam pipes.
2 Steam printing.
3 Steel composing rules.
4 Steel quoins.
5 Steel rules.
6 Stem of letter.
7 Stereotypes.
8 Stereo.
9 Stereo apparatus.
10 Stereo catches.
11 Stereo Chases.
12 Stereo clumps.
13 Stereo flong.
14 Stereo furniture.
15 Stereo metal.
16 Stereo metal blocks.
17 Stereo mounting boards.
18 Stereo mounts.
19 Stereo pins.
20 Stereo wood blocks.

1 Stet.
2 Stick.
3 Stickful.
4 Sticks.
5 Stitched.
6 Stock room.
7 Stokehole.
8 Stone.
9 Stool.
10 Stop impression.
11 Stopping cylinder.
12 Stops (points).
13 Store-keeper.
14 Store-room.
15 Straight accents.
16 Straight-edge.
17 Strawboard.
18 Striker.
19 Strikes.
20 String.

1 Strip a forme.
2 Stroker.
3 Stroker in.
4 Strokes.
5 Strong ink.
6 Style of the house.
7 Sub-title.
8 Summer.
9 Sun machine.
10 Sunday work.
11 Super-calendered paper.
12 Superior figures.
13 Superior letters.
14 Superiors.
15 Super royal.
16 Surface.
17 Surface boards.
18 Surface cards.
19 Surfaced paper.
20 Swash letters.

1 Sweepings.
2 Swell rules.
3 Symbols.
4 Syriac.
5 Syriac case.