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run upon sorts en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (dated) To 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)

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
ran upon sorts Tense=Past lexicographic
runs upon sorts Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
running upon sorts Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
run upon sorts Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic