Definition of letter

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Letter (v. t.) To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered..

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Credential :: Credential (n.) Testimonials showing that a person is entitled to credit, or has right to exercise official power, as the letters given by a government to an ambassador or envoy, or a certificate that one is a duly elected delegate..
Ypsiloid :: Ypsiloid (a.) In the form of the letter Y; Y-shaped.
Suffixion :: Suffix (v. t.) To add or annex to the end, as a letter or syllable to a word; to append..
Do :: Do (n.) A syllable attached to the first tone of the major diatonic scale for the purpose of solmization, or solfeggio. It is the first of the seven syllables used by the Italians as manes of musical tones, and replaced, for the sake of euphony, the syllable Ut, applied to the note C. In England and America the same syllables are used by mane as a scale pattern, while the tones in respect to absolute pitch are named from the first seven letters of the alphabet..
Font :: Font (n.) A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount..
Symbol :: Symbol (n.) An abbreviation standing for the name of an element and consisting of the initial letter of the Latin or New Latin name, or sometimes of the initial letter with a following one; as, C for carbon, Na for sodium (Natrium), Fe for iron (Ferrum), Sn for tin (Stannum), Sb for antimony (Stibium), etc. See the list of names and symbols under Element..
Yt :: Yt () an old method of printing that (AS. /aet, /aet) the y taking the place of the old letter thorn (/). Cf. Ye, the..
O :: O (n.) Something shaped like the letter O; a circle or oval.
Cross :: Cross (v. t.) To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t..
Address :: Address (v.) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter..
Preformative :: Preformative (n.) A formative letter at the beginning of a word.
Uncipher :: Uncipher (v. t.) To decipher; as, to uncipher a letter..
Clerk :: Clerk (n.) A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.
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..
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..
Lettered :: Lettered (imp. & p. p.) of Lette.
Guttural :: Guttural (n.) A sound formed in the throat; esp., a sound formed by the aid of the back of the tongue, much retracted, and the soft palate; also, a letter representing such a sound..
Quiesce :: Quiesce (a. & n.) To be silent, as a letter; to have no sound..
Alcoranist :: Alcoranist (n.) One who adheres to the letter of the Koran, rejecting all traditions..
Thoth :: Thoth (n.) The god of eloquence and letters among the ancient Egyptians, and supposed to be the inventor of writing and philosophy. He corresponded to the Mercury of the Romans, and was usually represented as a human figure with the head of an ibis or a lamb..
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