run upon sorts

== English == === Verb === run 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) (printing, 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. American Printer and Lithographer (volume 25, page 327) 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.