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from a crosspiece, and surmounted by a golden crown. It bore a monogram of the first two letters (CHR) of the name of Christ in its Greek form. Later, the name was given to various modifications of this standard.

A letter or character representing an articulation or sound formed or uttered chiefly with the lips, as b, p, w.

A labiodental sound or letter.

A labionasal sound or letter.

An imperfect enunciation of the letter r, in which it sounds like l.

The name of the Greek letter

A fault in speaking or in composition, which consists in too frequent use of the letter l, or in doubling it erroneously.

Shaped like the Greek letter lambda (as, the lambdoid suture between the occipital and parietal bones of the skull.

slender or narrow; -- said of type the letters of which have thin lines, or are unusually narrow in proportion to their height. W. Savage.

Scripture lessons, are chanted or read; hence, a reading desk. [Written also lectern and lettern]. Fairholt.

The state or quality of being letter of the law.

See Letterwood.

ede; to oppose. [Archaic] He was so strong that no man might him let. Chaucer. He who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 2. Thess. ii. 7. Mine ancient wound is hardly whole, And lets me from the saddle. Tennyson.

See Letterure. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A double character, or a type consisting of two or more letters or characters united, as æ, fi, ffl.

To illumine, as books or parchments, with ornamental figures, letters, or borders.

A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column.

nd teeth, or rather that part of the gum just above the front teeth; dentolingual, as the letters d and t.

the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter. Lingual ribbon. (Zoöl.) See Odontophore.

A writing composed of words not having a certain letters; -- as in the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus there was no A in the first book, no B in the second, and so on.