"run upon sorts" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "runs upon sorts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "running upon sorts",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ran upon sorts",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "run upon sorts",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "run<,,ran,run> upon sorts"
      },
      "expansion": "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)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Printing",
          "orig": "en:Printing",
          "parents": [
            "Industries",
            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "American Printer and Lithographer (volume 25, page 327)",
          "text": "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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To use or require a greater number of some particular letters or symbols than the regular proportion, as, for example, when making an index."
      ],
      "id": "en-run_upon_sorts-en-verb-IX3ygEw~",
      "links": [
        [
          "printing",
          "printing#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "media",
        "printing",
        "publishing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "run upon sorts"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "runs upon sorts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "running upon sorts",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ran upon sorts",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "run upon sorts",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "run<,,ran,run> upon sorts"
      },
      "expansion": "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)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs",
        "en:Printing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "American Printer and Lithographer (volume 25, page 327)",
          "text": "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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To use or require a greater number of some particular letters or symbols than the regular proportion, as, for example, when making an index."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "printing",
          "printing#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "media",
        "printing",
        "publishing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "run upon sorts"
}