Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A size of printingtype, a little less than 7 lines to the inch, intermediate between the sizes pica (larger) and long-primer (smaller). It is equal to 11 points in the new system. See
point , 14 , and pica. This is small-pica type.
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Examples
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Printed on small-pica it would run to eight hundred pages, and could never pay.
Waverley 2004
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Thirty-three small-pica lines news in a daily journal in a King's Capital of 170,000 inhabitants is surely not an overdose.
A Tramp Abroad 1879
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The reading-matter is compressed into two hundred and five small-pica lines, and is lighted up with eight pica headlines.
A Tramp Abroad 1879
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The reading-matter is compressed into two hundred and five small-pica lines, and is lighted up with eight pica headlines.
A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 Mark Twain 1872
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Thirty-three small-pica lines news in a daily journal in a King's Capital of one hundred and seventy thousand inhabitants is surely not an overdose.
A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 Mark Twain 1872
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Printed on small-pica it would run to eight hundred pages, and could never pay.
Waverley Walter Scott 1801
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Printed on small-pica it would run to eight hundred pages, and could never pay.
Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
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Printed on small-pica it would run to eight hundred pages, and could never pay.
Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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