FURNITURE

In Printing, the materials used to extend pages of type to their proper length; also to separate them, when imposed, to a just distance from each other, so that when the sheet is printed and folded the margin shall be regular and uniform. {See Imposing.) It consists of pieces of oak wood planed up to specific thickne es, and to about half an inch high; side sticks and foot sticks, which are placed at the outside of the pages, and made thinner at one end than the other, to allow the quoin to secure them more effectually; and quoins or wedges, usually made of beech wood, with which the pages are wedged up in a chase. See Chase. Fu'rniture. (Fr. fournir, to furnish.) In Architecture, the visible bra work of locks, knobs to doors, window shutters, and the like. [s. 494]