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Two signs or characters combined to express a single articulated sound; as ea in head, or th in bath.

Of or pertaining to a digraph. H. Sweet.

roducing embossed writing for the blind and ordinary writing at the same time. -- Dip`lo*graph"ic*al (#), a. -- Dip*log"ra*phy (#), n.

See 4th Trap, 5.

A thin woolen fabric, twilled like merino.

To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc. The whole people were draped professionally. De Quincey. These starry blossoms, [of the snow] pure and white, Soft falling, falling, through the night, Have draped the woods and mere. Bungay.

One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as, a draper and tailor.

Covered or supplied with drapery. [R.] Byron.

The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth. Bacon.

Cloth. [Obs.] Spenser.

A picture printed from two half-tone plates made with the screen set at different angles, and usually printed in two shades of the same color or in black and one tint.

A dynamometer to which is attached a device for automatically registering muscular power.

A method of etching in which the design upon the plate is produced in relief.

An instrument for copying drawings on the same or a different scale; a form of the pantograph.

r of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph.

Belonging to the electro-chronograph, or recorded by the aid of it.

Pertaining to the electric telegraph, or by means of it.

The art or science of constructing or using the electric telegraph; the transmission of messages by means of the electric telegraph.

The branch of medical science which treats of the applications agent.

A mark, record, or tracing, made by the action of electricity.