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A student of, or one versed in, epigraphy.

The science of inscriptions; the art of engraving inscriptions or of deciphering them.

Pertaining to the writing of letters; used in writing letters; epistolary. Epistolographic character or mode of writing, the same as Demotic character. See under Demotic.

The art or practice of writing epistles.

g the work done by a single muscle or set of muscles, the rate of fatigue, etc. -- Er`go*graph"ic (#), a.

The action of a horse, when, to get rid of his rider, he rears, plunges, and kicks furiously.

One who investigates ethnography.

pertaining to ethnography.

In an ethnographical manner.

That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.

Beyond the limits of a parish. -- Ex`tra*pa*ro"chi*al*ly, adv.

Not subject to physical laws or methods.

Foreign to a profession; not within the ordinary limits of professional duty or business.

Not within of pertaining to the same province or jurisdiction. Ayliffe.

An instrument for measuring and recording automatically the rise and fall of a river.

. A trap for catching flies.

To wrap up; to conceal. [Obs.] All mote be said and nought excused, nor hid, nor forwrapped. Chaucer.

To draw together; to bind with a view to secure and strengthen, as a vessel by passing cables around it; to tighten; as a tackle by drawing the lines together. Tottem.

A crowd, a rabble. [Obs.] ares.

A blusterer; a rowdy. [Obs.] Unpolished, a frapler, and base. B. Jonson.