Lower Case.—(1) A shallow wooden receptacle divided into compartments called boxes, for keeping separate the small letters of a font of type; distinguished from the upper case which stands slantingly above the lower case and contains the capital letters; hence (2) the letters in that case.
Make-up.—The arrangement of type into columns and pages preparatory to printing.
Make-up Man.—The workman who arranges composed type in forms preparatory to printing.
Morgue.—The filing cabinet or room in which are kept stories and obituaries of prominent persons, photographs of them, their families, and their homes, clippings of various kinds about disasters, religious associations, big conventions, strikes, wars, etc. See page [9].
Must.—A direction put on the margin of copy to indicate that the story must be printed.
Pi.—Type that has been so jumbled or disarranged that it cannot be used until reassembled.
Pi Line.—A freak line set up by a compositor when he has made an error in the line and completed it by striking the keys at random until he has filled out the measure and cast the slug: ETAOINS
Play Up.—To emphasize by writing about with unusual fullness.
Police Blotter.—See Blotter.
Pony Report.—A condensed report of the day's news, sent out by news bureaus to papers that are not able or do not care to subscribe for the full service.