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Administratrix :: Administratrix (n.) A woman who administers; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator..

Favor :: Favor (n.) A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received..

Dictate :: Dictate (v. t.) To tell or utter so that another may write down; to inspire; to compose; as, to dictate a letter to an amanuensis..

Termination :: Termination (n.) The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection.

Mytacism :: Mytacism (n.) Too frequent use of the letter m, or of the sound represented by it..

Servile :: Servile (a.) Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter..

Liquid :: Liquid (a.) Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth; as, l and r are liquid letters..

Sealing Wax :: Sealing wax () A compound of the resinous materials, pigments, etc., used as a material for seals, as for letters, documents, etc..

Signet :: Signet (n.) A seal; especially, in England, the seal used by the sovereign in sealing private letters and grants that pass by bill under the sign manual; -- called also privy signet..

Dental :: Dental (a.) Formed by the aid of the teeth; -- said of certain articulations and the letters representing them; as, d t are dental letters..

N :: N () the fourteenth letter of English alphabet, is a vocal consonent, and, in allusion to its mode of formation, is called the dentinasal or linguanasal consonent. Its commoner sound is that heard in ran, done; but when immediately followed in the same word by the sound of g hard or k (as in single, sink, conquer), it usually represents the same sound as the digraph ng in sing, bring, etc. This is a simple but related sound, and is called the gutturo-nasal consonent. See Guide to Pronunciation,

Copy :: Copy (v. i.) To yield a duplicate or transcript; as, the letter did not copy well..

Lettern :: Lettern (n.) See Lecturn.

Backhand :: Backhand (n.) A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.

Minuscule :: Minuscule (n.) A small Roman letter which is neither capital nor uncial; a manuscript written in such letters.

Oxbow :: Oxbow (n.) A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a river..

Quiesce :: Quiesce (a. & n.) To be silent, as a letter; to have no sound..

Acknowledge :: Acknowledge (v. t.) To own with gratitude or as a benefit or an obligation; as, to acknowledge a favor, the receipt of a letter..

Literatim :: Literatim (adv.) Letter for letter.

Lambdacism :: Lambdacism (n.) A fault in speaking or in composition, which consists in too frequent use of the letter l, or in doubling it erroneously..

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