Laying pages.—Placing pages on the stone in the proper order for imposition.
Lean.—Close and solid matter.
Lean face.—Light, thin type.
Letter hangs.—When the page is out of square.
Locking up.—Tightening up a forme by means of quoins.
Longcross.—The bar that divides a chase the longest way.
Low case.—When the compositor has set almost all the letters out of her case.
Making up.—To arrange the lines of matter into pages.
Making margin.—In imposition, arranging the space between the pages of a forme so that the margin will be properly proportioned.
Measure.—The width of a page.