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Corresponding :: Corresponding (a.) Carrying on intercourse by letters.

Indorse :: Indorse (v. t.) To write upon the back or outside of a paper or letter, as a direction, heading, memorandum, or address..

Liquid :: Liquid (n.) A letter which has a smooth, flowing sound, or which flows smoothly after a mute; as, l and r, in bla, bra. M and n also are called liquids..

Capital :: Capital (a.) See Capital letter, under Capital, a..

Initial :: Initial (a.) Placed at the beginning; standing at the head, as of a list or series; as, the initial letters of a name..

Literature :: Literature (n.) Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.

Hear :: Hear (v. i.) To be informed by oral communication; to be told; to receive information by report or by letter.

Monogram :: Monogram (n.) A character or cipher composed of two or more letters interwoven or combined so as to represent a name, or a part of it (usually the initials). Monograms are often used on seals, ornamental pins, rings, buttons, and by painters, engravers, etc., to distinguish their works..

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..

Correspondent :: Correspondent (n.) One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance.

Tau :: Tau (n.) The common American toadfish; -- so called from a marking resembling the Greek letter tau (/).

Hypsiloid :: Hypsiloid (a.) Resembling the Greek letter / in form; hyoid.

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..

Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form..

C :: C () C is the third letter of the English alphabet. It is from the Latin letter C, which in old Latin represented the sounds of k, and g (in go); its original value being the latter. In Anglo-Saxon words, or Old English before the Norman Conquest, it always has the sound of k. The Latin C was the same letter as the Greek /, /, and came from the Greek alphabet. The Greeks got it from the Ph/nicians. The English name of C is from the Latin name ce, and was derived, probably, through the French. Et

Black Letter :: Black letter () The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type..

Initial :: Initial (n.) The first letter of a word or a name.

Copy :: Copy (n.) An imitation, transcript, or reproduction of an original work; as, a copy of a letter, an engraving, a painting, or a statue..

T :: T () the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant. With the letter h it forms the digraph th, which has two distinct sounds, as in thin, then. See Guide to Pronunciation, //262-264, and also //153, 156, 169, 172, 176, 178-180..

Lipogram :: Lipogram (n.) A writing composed of words not having a certain letter or letters; -- as in the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus there was no A in the first book, no B in the second, and so on..

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