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Constructionist :: Constructionist (n.) One who puts a certain construction upon some writing or instrument, as the Constitutions of the United States; as, a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist..

Dissertation :: Dissertation (n.) A formal or elaborate argumentative discourse, oral or written; a disquisition; an essay; a discussion; as, Dissertations on the Prophecies..

Rescript :: Rescript (v. t.) The official written answer of the pope upon a question of canon law, or morals..

Blot :: Blot (v. t.) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses..

Post-disseizin :: Post-disseizin (n.) A subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor; a writ founded on such subsequent disseizin, now abolished..

Illiteracy :: Illiteracy (n.) The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; want of learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last census..

Cedule :: Cedule (n.) A scroll; a writing; a schedule.

Quirk :: Quirk (n.) A piece of ground taken out of any regular ground plot or floor, so as to make a court, yard, etc.; -- sometimes written quink..

Notice :: Notice (n.) A writing communicating information or warning.

Pamphleteer :: Pamphleteer (v. i.) To write or publish pamphlets.

Epistolographic :: Epistolographic (a.) Pertaining to the writing of letters; used in writing letters; epistolary.

Draff :: Draff (n.) The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught..

Decameron :: Decameron (n.) A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian..

Olay :: Olay (n. pl.) Palm leaves, prepared for being written upon with a style pointed with steel..

Picariae :: Picariae (n. pl.) An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds..

Legist :: Legist (n.) One skilled in the laws; a writer on law.

Octavo :: Octavo (n.) A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into eight leaves; hence, indicating more or less definitely a size of book so made; -- usually written 8vo or 8¡..

Note Paper :: Note paper () Writing paper, not exceeding in size, when folded once, five by eight inches..

Grammarian :: Grammarian (n.) One who writes on, or teaches, grammar..

Handwriting :: Handwriting (n.) The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography.

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