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1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 284 Making Register, is to Quoin up a Form [etc.].

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 289 Then he observes how the Register of the Head and Foot agrees.

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 348 Out of register, bad register.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) In the Art of Printing, Register is a Rule for the equal Distribution of the Lines and Pages.

1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 500 Out of register, when Pages are not worked even on each other.

1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 159 The right hand margin is not in register, the lines being of unequal length.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 305 In order to..be printed on both sides, without destroying the register (or coincidence of the pages on the opposite sides of the sheet).

1890 J. W. Zaehnsdorf Art of Bookbinding (ed. 2) i. i. 3 The binder is perfectly justified in rejecting any sheets..not in register.

1943 B. Rogers Paragraphs on Printing 57 Uneven leading or extra leading between paragraphs..throws lines out of register, interrupts the continuity of the text, and offends the eye.

1984 J. Gerritsen in G. A. M. Janssens & F. G. A. M. Aarts Stud. 17th-cent. Eng. Lit., Hist., & Bibliogr. 109 The two sides are completely out of register in both directions, as a result of which the final headline is almost wholly trimmed away.

2000 Adv. Learner's Dict. Journalism 121 Register, the accurate positioning of printing on a page, so that each page image will exactly back up the page image on the other side of a sheet.