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Definition of Kerning
1. kern [v] - See also: kern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kerning
Literary usage of Kerning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Colin Clout's Calendar: The Record of a Summer April by Grant Allen (1883)
"THE kerning OF THE WHEAT. A NARROW single-file pathway leads obliquely as a short
cut across the lower corn-field to the bridge, and on either hand the ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"Kern, kerning. (1) To form corn, or kernel. ' A better kerning of the ...
kerning ground is that which, drest well, will produce a great quantity of corn, ..."
3. The Printing of Greek in the Fifteenth Century by Robert Proctor (1900)
"The kerning of letters in the same line by projecting side-pieces has already
been touched on; ... But of course, as the object of kerning is to save space, ..."
4. Reprinted Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1879)
"Kern, kerning. (1) To form corn, or kernel. ' A botter kerning of the blossoms.
... 'kerning ground is that which, drest well, will produce a great quantity ..."
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