The _Dressing-Knife_ is delineated at d in _Plate 21_. It is only a short piece of a _Knife_ broken off about two Inches from the _Sholder_: But its Edge is _Basil’d_ away from the back to the point pretty suddenly to make it the stronger: The _Sprig_ or _Pin_ of the _Handle_ is commonly let into an Hole drilled into a piece of the Tip of an Harts-horn, as in the Figure and is fastned in with _Rosen_, as other _Knives_ are into their _Handles_. ¶. 5. _Of the_ Plow. The _Plow_ is delineated in _Plate 21_ at e: It is almost a common _Plain_ (which I have already described in _Vol._ 1. _Numb._ 4. _Plate 4_. and §. 2 to 9.) only with this distinction, that through the length of the _Sole_ runs such a _Tongue_, as does through the _Male-Block_ to slide tight and yet easily through the _Groove_ made on the top of the _Male-block_: Its _Blade_ makes an _Angle_ of 60 Degrees with the _Sole_ of it. §. 21. ¶. 1. _Of_ Dressing _of_ Letters. The _Letter-Dresser_ hath (as I told you before) his _Letter Set_ up in _Composing-sticks_, with their _Nicks_ upwards, and those _Sticks_ set upon the _Racks_: Therefore he takes one _Stick_ off the _Racks_, and placing the _Handle_ of the _Composing-stick_ in his left hand, he takes the contrary end of the _Dressing-stick_ in his right-hand, and laying the Back of the _Dressing-stick_ even upon or rather a little hanging over the Back of the _Composing-stick_, that the _Feet_ of the _Letter_ may fall within the _Bottom-Ledge_ of the _Dressing-stick_; He at the same time fits the _Side-Ledge_ of the _Dressing-stick_ against the farther end of the _Line_ of _Letters_ in the _Composing-stick_: And holding then both _Sticks_ together, his left hand at the _Handle_-end of the _Composing-stick_, and his right-Hand within about two Handfuls of the _Handle_-end of the _Dressing-stick_, He turns his Hands, _Sticks_ and all, outward from his left hand, till the _Composing-stick_ lies flat upon the _Dressing-stick_, and consequently the _Letters_ in the _Composing-stick_ is turned and laid upon the _Dressing-stick_. Then he goes as near the Light as he can with the _Letters_ in his _Dressing-stick_, and examins what _Letters Come not well_ either in the _Face_ or _Shanck_: So that then holding the _Dressing-stick_ in his left hand, and tilting the _Bottom-Ledge_ a little downward, that the _Feet_ of the _Letter_ may rest against the _Bottom-Ledge_, and laying the Ball of his Thumb upon any certain Number of _Letters_ between his _Body_ and the _Letter_ to be _Cast out_, He with the _Foot_ of a _Space_ or some thin _Letter_, lifts up the _Letter_ to be _Cast out_, and lets it fall upon the _Dressing-Bench_: and thus he does to all the _Letters_ in that _Stick_ that are to be _Thrown out_.