ALPHABET

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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

2.
n.

The simplest rudiments; elements. The very alphabet of our law. Macaulay. Deaf and dumb alphabet. See Dactylology.

3.
v.

To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically. [R.]