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Post :: Post (n.) A messenger who goes from station; an express; especially, one who is employed by the government to carry letters and parcels regularly from one place to another; a letter carrier; a postman..

Articulate :: Articulate (v. t.) To form, as the elementary sounds; to utter in distinct syllables or words; to enunciate; as, to articulate letters or language..

Acromonogrammatic :: Acromonogrammatic (a.) Having each verse begin with the same letter as that with which the preceding verse ends.

Quadrat :: Quadrat (n.) A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines..

Postfix :: Postfix (n.) A letter, syllable, or word, added to the end of another word; a suffix..

Pall :: Pall (n.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y..

Intercept :: Intercept (v. t.) To take or seize by the way, or before arrival at the destined place; to cause to stop on the passage; as, to intercept a letter; a telegram will intercept him at Paris..

Literator :: Literator (n.) One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster.

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..

Y :: Y (n.) Something shaped like the letter Y; a forked piece resembling in form the letter Y.

Cacuminal :: Cacuminal (a.) Pertaining to the top of the palate; cerebral; -- applied to certain consonants; as, cacuminal (or cerebral) letters..

Theta :: Theta (n.) A letter of the Greek alphabet corresponding to th in English; -- sometimes called the unlucky letter, from being used by the judges on their ballots in passing condemnation on a prisoner, it being the first letter of the Greek qa`natos, death..

F :: F () F is the sixth letter of the English alphabet, and a nonvocal consonant. Its form and sound are from the Latin. The Latin borrowed the form from the Greek digamma /, which probably had the value of English w consonant. The form and value of Greek letter came from the Phoenician, the ultimate source being probably Egyptian. Etymologically f is most closely related to p, k, v, and b; as in E. five, Gr. pe`nte; E. wolf, L. lupus, Gr. ly`kos; E. fox, vixen ; fragile, break; fruit, brook, v. t.;

Type :: Type (n.) Such letters or characters, in general, or the whole quantity of them used in printing, spoken of collectively; any number or mass of such letters or characters, however disposed..

Literation :: Literation (n.) The act or process of representing by letters.

File :: File (n.) An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant..

Duoliteral :: Duoliteral (a.) Consisting of two letters only; biliteral.

Heterographic :: Heterographic (a.) Employing the same letters to represent different sounds in different words or syllables; -- said of methods of spelling; as, the ordinary English orthography is heterographic..

End :: End (v. t.) To form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the word back..

Lettered :: Lettered (imp. & p. p.) of Lette.

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