To these letters may be added the four following complex characters [#], [#], [#], and [#].
Etruscan in the British Founderies.
Pica.—Caslon and Livermore. Cut by Caslon for the celebrated linguist, the Rev. John Swinton, Oxford, about 1733.
EVEN LINES.
When a piece of printing has to be executed in great haste, a number of compositors are employed on it, and the copy is cut into small pieces for each, to facilitate the making-up, imposing, and the general furthering of the work; if the copy should be in long paragraphs, the compositors have each to begin a line and to make their copy end a line, frequently with great irregularity of spacing; this is termed making even lines. In daily newspapers it is of constant occurrence.
EVEN PAGE.
The second, fourth, sixth, or any other even numbered page is called an even page.
Exclamation, Note of. See Punctuation.
EXERCISING THE PELT.
Frequently currying a pelt, to get it into condition, is termed Exercising the Pelt, or Giving the Pelt Exercise.