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Verso

The reverse, or left-hand, page of a book or a folded sheet of paper; -- opposed to recto.

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Page 76% connected

A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in Engl…

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Side 76% connected

The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distin…

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Tail 76% connected

Limitation; abridgment.

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Coin 70% connected

A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin.

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Reverse 92% connected

Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bastard noun · 78% connection

Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.

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Blank noun · 78% connection

A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated i…

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Bookmark noun · 78% connection

Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookpla…

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Broadside noun · 78% connection

A sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed on one side only; -- called also broadsheet.

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Catchword noun · 78% connection

The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistanc…

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Decimosexto noun · 78% connection

A book consisting of sheets, each of which is folded into sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of book;…

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Double adjective · 78% connection

To make of two thicknesses or folds by turning or bending together in the middle; to fold one part upon another part of; as, to double…

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Duodecimo noun · 78% connection

A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into twelve leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of a book;…

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Fistula noun · 78% connection

A permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic abscess; an abnormal opening betwe…

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Folio noun · 78% connection

A book made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. See Note under Paper.

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Follower noun · 78% connection

Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.

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Foolscap noun · 78% connection

A writing paper made in sheets, ordinarily 16 x 13 inches, and folded so as to make a page 13 x 8 inches. See Paper.

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Hornbook noun · 78% connection

The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet…

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Imprint verb · 78% connection

Whatever is impressed or imprinted; the impress or mark left by something; specifically, the name of the printer or publisher (usually…

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Inset noun · 78% connection

One or more separate leaves inserted in a volume before binding; as: (a) A portion of the printed sheet in certain sizes of books whic…

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Inverted adjective · 78% connection

Situated apparently in reverse order, as strata when folded back upon themselves by upheaval.

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Leaf noun · 78% connection

Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or…

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Left adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action of the limbs is usually weaker than on the other side; -…

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