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Title :: Title (n.) An inscription put over or upon anything as a name by which it is known.

Chronogram :: Chronogram (n.) An inscription in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs.- the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632..

Tablet :: Tablet (n.) A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture..

Inscription :: Inscription (n.) A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle..

Illegible :: Illegible (a.) Incapable of being read; not legible; as, illegible handwriting; an illegible inscription..

Gravestone :: Gravestone (n.) A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone..

Himyaritic :: Himyaritic (a.) Pertaining to Himyar, an ancient king of Yemen, in Arabia, or to his successors or people; as, the Himjaritic characters, language, etc.; applied esp. to certain ancient inscriptions showing the primitive type of the oldest form of the Arabic, still spoken in Southern Arabia..

Label :: Label (n.) In mediaeval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription..

Efface :: Efface (v. t.) To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin..

Obscure :: Obscure (superl.) Not easily understood; not clear or legible; abstruse or blind; as, an obscure passage or inscription..

Cartouch :: Cartouch (n.) A tablet for ornament, or for receiving an inscription, formed like a sheet of paper with the edges rolled up; hence, any tablet of ornamental form..

Circumscription :: Circumscription (n.) An inscription written around anything.

Superscript :: Superscribe (v. t.) To write or engrave (a name, address, inscription, or the like) on the top or surface; to write a name, address, or the like, on the outside or cover of (anything); as, to superscribe a letter..

Ro-setta Stone :: Ro-setta stone () A stone found at Rosetta, in Egypt, bearing a trilingual inscription, by aid of which, with other inscriptions, a key was obtained to the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt..

Archaeology :: Archaeology (n.) The science or study of antiquities, esp. prehistoric antiquities, such as the remains of buildings or monuments of an early epoch, inscriptions, implements, and other relics, written manuscripts, etc..

Insculpture :: Insculpture (n.) An engraving, carving, or inscription..

Graffiti :: Graffiti (n. pl.) Inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs, or at Pompeii..

Scripture :: Scripture (n.) Anything written; a writing; a document; an inscription.

Letter :: Letter (n.) A writing; an inscription.

Epigraphy :: Epigraphy (n.) The science of inscriptions; the art of engraving inscriptions or of deciphering them.

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