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| | ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science |
 | | A modern version of the erasable chalkboard, with a surface that is white, rather than the traditional fl or green, made of a smooth material that can be written upon with dry-erase marking pens in various colors, easy to erase and not as messy as chalk. |
 | | In printing, a line of spacing equal in depth to a line of printed matter, used before and after headings, long quotations, etc., to set them apart from the text. |
 | | In medieval manuscripts, a border motif developed in the 15th century by the Italian humanists, composed of an interlace pattern of vine stems made to appear light in color by applying paint to the surrounding background and leaving the vine unpainted, allowing the bare surface of the parchment or paper to show through. |
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