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A large ornamental letter used, esp. by the early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book. Brande & C.

In a fantastic manner. the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom. Hawthorne.

To swell out; to render pompous. [Obs.] Farcing his letter with fustian. Sandys.

A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received.

is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch. Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off. Spectator.

or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly. Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace. Macaulay.

A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read. "Pedantic fescue.' Sterne. To come under the fescue of an imprimatur. Milton.

f papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant.

ch. With most fluent utterance. Denham. Fluent as the flight of a swallow is the sultan's letter. De Quincey.

s or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter. As a vesture shalt thou fold them up. Heb. i. 12.

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.

depending on the forms, so called of the human intellect. Of [the sounds represented by] letters, the material part is breath and voice; the formal is constituted by the motion and figure of the organs of speech. Holder.

A symbolic expression (by means of letters, figures, etc.) of the constituents or constitution of a compound.

To send forward; to send toward the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter.

f equal parts into which the integer is supposed to be divided is indicated by figures or letters, called the denominator, written below a line, over which is the numerator, indicating the number of these parts included in the fraction; as -- Complex fraction, a fraction having a fraction or mixed number in the numerat…

To extempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc.

A fricative consonant letter or sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 197-206, etc.

The Runic alphabet; -- so called from the six letters f, u, þ (th), o (or a), r, c (=k).

G is the seventh letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It has two sounds; one simple, as in gave, go, gull; the other compound (like that of j), as in gem, gin, dingy. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 231-6, 155, 176, 178, 179, 196, 211, 246.

The third letter (G) of the Greek alphabet.