The American Printer: A Manual of Typography / Containing practical directions for managing all departments of a printing office, as well as complete instructions for apprentices; with several useful tables, numerous schemes for imposing forms in every variety, hints to authors, etc.

by Thomas MacKellar

Clearing away.—Properly disposing of materials after a work has been completed.

Clicker.—The chief of a companionship.

Close matter.—Solid matter with few break-lines.

Companionship.—All the hands employed on a work.

Composing.—Setting type.

Composing-rule.—A steel or brass rule, with a beak at one end, used in typesetting.

Composing-stick.—An instrument in which types are arranged in words and lines.

Corner quadrates.—A quarter section of a hollow square or rectangle.

Correct.—A compositor is said to correct when he amends the faults marked in a proof.

Corrections.—The alterations or errors marked in a proof.