SAND BAG.—A flat leather bag filled with sand, used by engravers to form a pad to rest the block upon and to enable them to turn the block easily. This facility of turning the block round is most valuable, and the more the pad has been used the more readily does it work.

SANSERIFF.—Jobbing type without seriffs, as seen in the accompanying specimen:—

LONG PRIMER SANSERIFF

SAW.—An instrument used for cutting reglet, furniture, &c.

SAW BLOCK.—A block of wood notched in certain directions to guide the saw in cutting up and raitreing furniture, &c.

SCALE.—The prices agreed upon to be paid by master printers and accepted by the men, lias been drawn up to a certain scale, and in casting-up matter the compositors do so according to the scale, which is published by the London Society of Compositors, and may be obtained at their offices, 3, Racqueteourt, Fleet-street, London, price sixpence.

SCALEBOABD.—Thin strips of wood similar to reglet, but of the thickness of leads—4-to-pica, 6-to-pica, 8-to-pica, &c. It is used in making register, and is preferable to leads, which are liable to get battered or broken.

SCHEDULE.—A blank table for the purpose of entering inventories, &c., in.

SCORPERS.—Instruments used by engravers to clear away the larger portions of the wood not drawn on.

SCRATCHED FIGURES.—Figures used in arithmetical matter when the divided and dividing figures require to he crossed over in an operation; or in law work, &c., when a fac simile of a document is desired, to represent cancelled figures in the original.