kern

  1. Noun.  (archaic, _) A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; ''in archaic contexts often used as a term of contempt''.
  2. Noun.  (context, hot metal) any part of a letter which extends into the space used by another letter.
  3. Verb.  (typography, particularly) To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters (characters or glyphs); to perform such adjustments to a portion of text, according to preset rules.

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