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Handwriting

The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography.

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Cacography 76% connected

Incorrect or bad writing or spelling.

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Calligraphy 76% connected

Fair or elegant penmanship.

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Chirography 76% connected

The art of writing or engrossing; handwriting; as, skilled in chirography.

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Cursive 76% connected

Running; flowing.

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Longhand 76% connected

The written characters used in the common method of writing; -- opposed to shorthand.

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Penmanship 76% connected

The use of the pen in writing; the art of writing; style or manner of writing; chirography; as, good or bad penmanship.

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Scratch 76% connected

To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…

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Scrawl 76% connected

See Crawl.

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Scribble 76% connected

To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.

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Shorthand 76% connected

A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography…

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Stenography 76% connected

The art of writing in shorthand, by using abbreviations or characters for whole words; shorthand.

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Subscription 76% connected

The act of subscribing.

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Tachygraphy 76% connected

The art or practice of rapid writing; shorthand writing; stenography.

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Writing 76% connected

of Write

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Hand 92% connected

That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.

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Script 92% connected

A writing; a written document.

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