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r on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; -- said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.

The act of imposing the columns of a page, or the pages of a sheet. See Impose, v. t., 4. Imposing stone (Print.), the stone on which the pages or columns of types are imposed or made into forms; - - called also imposing table.

The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4.

name of the printer or publisher (usually) with the time and place of issue, in the title-page of a book, or on any printed sheet. "That imprint of their hands." Buckle.

Shak. Situated in the forty-first degree of latitude. Gibbon. Matter for censure in every page. Macaulay.

e includes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty-five. The whole included race, his purposed prey. Milton. The loss of such a lord includes all harm. Shak.

ing a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph.

le of the folded sheet to complete the succession of paging; -- also called offcut. (b) A page or pages of advertisements inserted.

ellaneous matter, and furnished wholesale to offices of small newspapers, where the blank pages are filled up with recent and local news.

Unsubstantial; not real or strong. "Insubstantial pageant." [R.] Shak.

The act or state of interfering; as, the stoppage of a machine by the interference of some of its parts; a meddlesome interference in the business of others.

rection or addition; to write or print something between the lines of; as, to interline a page or a book. Swift.

A mask; a pageant; an interlude. [Obs.] Nares. He promised us, in honor of our guest, To grace our banquet with some pompous jest. Kyd.

music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc. How diversely Love doth his pageants play, And snows his power in variable kinds ! Spenser. There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. I Cor. xv. 39. Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was th…

t; farthest; as, the last year of a century; the last man in a line of soldiers; the last page in a book; his last chance. Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. Neh. viii. 18. Fairest of stars, last in the train of night. Milton.

To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.

To place leads between the lines of; as, to lead a page; leaded matter.

Separated by leads, as the lines of a page.

larger body by one edge or end; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying i…

row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column.