run upon sorts

verb

To use or require a greater number of some particular letters or symbols than the regular proportion, as, for example, when making an index.

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Meanings

verbrun upon sorts (third-person singular simple present runs upon sorts, present participle running upon sorts, simple past ran upon sorts, past participle run upon sorts)

present singular third person runs upon sorts · participle present running upon sorts · past ran upon sorts

  1. datedmediaTo use or require a greater number of some particular letters or symbols than the regular proportion, as, for example, when making an index.

    The writer remembers once printing a large index of map titles, which ran upon sorts so peculiarly that a two hundred-pound font of body letter had to be provided with two hundred pounds of sorts before the job was completed.

    American Printer and Lithographer (volume 25, page 327)
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