Letterer: alternatives and connections

A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a…

Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in…

The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.

Alt. of Alphabetical

Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the tr…

The contraction of a word by the omission of a letter or letters, which omission is marked by the character ['] placed where the lette…

Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the…

one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "print…

A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a c…

One who chases or engraves. See 5th Chase, and Enchase.

An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate conte…

The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowled…

One who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment.

Formed by the aid of the teeth; -- said of certain articulations and the letters representing them; as, d t are dental letters.

of an early stage in the development of a language or literature; "the Early Hebrew alphabetical script is that used mainly from the 1…

The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge; esp., a work in which the various…

One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.

Pertaining to epistles or letters; suitable to letters and correspondence; as, an epistolary style.