1860 Rep. Cases High Court of Chancery 728 An action was brought..against..the proprietor of the printing machinery and type used for the Times, in which an application..for liberty to take a sample of the Times type for analysis was refused.

1932 S. Morison in Monotype Recorder 31 13/1 A set of drawings was completed some two years ago, and the first size of what is now ‘The Times New Roman’ was cut in 9 point at the Monotype Works, Redhill, in April, 1931.

1957 V. S. Naipaul Mystic Masseur vi. 91 ‘Show me the type you going to print the book in.’ It was Times.

1963 Times 4 June 8/4 Time, the weekly news magazine, appears this week with a changed type face—Times Roman instead of the former old style.

1972 Times 9 Oct. 1/4 After 40 years The Times today appears in a new body type, Times-Europa. This has been designed for The Times to suit changing printing methods and largely replaces Times Roman.

2009 Wall St. Jrnl. 17 Apr. a10/1 Helvetica is an industry standard, plain and reliable. Times New Roman is classic.

1877 Building News 26 Oct. 423/1 He has, as quantity surveyors would say, timesed the monument.

1913 A. Wright Ohio Architect 21 11 Those of one size and one thickness of wall are ‘timesed’, as we say, and entered in the dimension column.

1964 C. Dent Quantity Surv. by Computer v. 62 Multiplication facility... This is used to deal with cases where the taker-off has ‘timesed’ his dimensions by a measurement in the description column.

2011 S. Lee et al. Willis's Elements Quantity Surv. (ed. 11) iv. To indicate that the measurement is to be multiplied it will be timesed as follows: The timesing figure is kept in the first column and separated from the dimension by a diagonal stroke.

1886 Cambr. Rev. 2 Dec. 125/2 You can on wi' your slippers, up wi' your legs, talk on, go for'ard, counting, twicing and three timesing.]

1962 Techn. Educ. Mar. 28 If I put down two noughts, would it ‘times’ it by a hundred?

1997 Guardian 11 Feb. ii. 6/1 All through the years of being six, seven and eight, identically pony-tailed, they..skipped, sang, acted, painted, took-away and timesed with undifferentiated enthusiasm.

2001 Smash Hits 28 Nov. 73/2 If you're interested in pyrotechnics..you'll need a science degree... Think about everything you learn in science at school and times it by ten—it's great fun.

1878 Brit. Architect & Northern Engineer 2 Aug. 51/2 It is then convenient to ‘dot it on’, as it is called, or to ‘times’ the first dimension. The first dimension being 2/5 feet, the ‘timesing’ would be thus, [etc.].

1891 J. Leaning Quantity Surv. 12 A precaution sometimes taken, if the surveyor has a series of dimensions which will require ‘timesing’, is to put the number or some mark in pencil opposite the first of the series.

1965 I. H. Seeley Building Quantities Explained ii. 11 Timesing. If there were three such items, then this dimension would be multiplied by three in the timesing column.

2012 Early Childhood Educ. Jrnl. 39 377/2 I think you could show 5 by timesing if you know how.