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Shorthand :: Shorthand (n.) A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography..

Thorn :: Thorn (n.) The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine..

Undersign :: Undersign (v. t.) To write one's name at the foot or end of, as a letter or any legal instrument..

Paragoge :: Paragoge (n.) The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word, as withouten for without..

Circular :: Circular (a.) A circular letter, or paper, usually printed, copies of which are addressed or given to various persons; as, a business circular..

Transliterate :: Transliterate (v. t.) To express or represent in the characters of another alphabet; as, to transliterate Sanskrit words by means of English letters..

Type :: Type (n.) A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing..

Illiterate :: Illiterate (a.) Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people..

Provection :: Provection (n.) A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename..

Ypsiloid :: Ypsiloid (a.) In the form of the letter Y; Y-shaped.

Combination :: Combination (n.) The different arrangements of a number of objects, as letters, into groups..

Telestich :: Telestich (n.) A poem in which the final letters of the lines, taken consequently, make a name. Cf. Acrostic..

Delivery :: Delivery (n.) The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters..

Bull :: Bull (v. i.) A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated a die Incarnationis, i. e., from the day of the Incarnation. See Apostolical brief, under Brief..

Lettering :: Lettering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lette.

Sea Brief :: Sea brief () Same as Sea letter.

Note :: Note (n.) A short informal letter; a billet.

D :: D () The fourth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. The English letter is from Latin, which is from Greek, which took it from Ph/nician, the probable ultimate origin being Egyptian. It is related most nearly to t and th; as, Eng. deep, G. tief; Eng. daughter, G. tochter, Gr. qyga`thr, Skr. duhitr. See Guide to Pronunciation, Ã178, 179, 229..

J :: "J () J is the tenth letter of the English alphabet. It is a later variant form of the Roman letter I, used to express a consonantal sound, that is, originally, the sound of English y in yet. The forms J and I have, until a recent time, been classed together, and they have been used interchangeably..

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

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