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A microscopically small photograph of a picture, writing, printed page, etc.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.

) A flat glass mirror without a frame. (b) Flat glass used for making mirrors. -- Mirror writing, a manner or form of backward writing, making manuscript resembling in slant and order of letters the reflection of ordinary writing in a mirror. The substitution of this manner of writing for the common manner is a sympto…

That which is sent; a writing containing a message.

Of or pertaining to a monograph, or to a monography; as, a monographic writing; a monographic picture. -- Mon`o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

ary desks and chairs), informal and individual instruction, the very early development of writing, and an extended sensory and motor training (with special emphasis on vision, touch, perception of movement, and their interconnections), mediated by a patented, standardized system of "didactic apparatus," which is declar…

The customary abbreviation of Mister in writing and printing. See Master, 4.

A record; the evidences or writings whereby a man is enabled to defend the title to his estate; title deeds and papers. Blount. Muniment house or room, that room in a cathedral, castle, or other public building, which is used for keeping the records, charters, seals, deeds, and the like. Gwilt.

Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty. Macaulay.

That which is related; the relation in words or writing of the particulars of any transaction or event, or of any series of transactions or events; story; history.

A new method or system of writing.

A kind of writing frame for the blind.

A public officer who attests or certifies deeds and other writings, or copies of them, usually under his official seal, to make them authentic, especially in foreign countries. His duties chiefly relate to instruments used in commercial transactions, such as protests of negotiable paper, ship's papers in cases of loss,…

A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.

Writing paper, not exceeding in size, when folded once, five by eight inches.

A writing communicating information or warning.

tion to the public or to individuals, corporations, companies, or societies, by words, by writing, or by other means.

on. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic writing from top to bottom.

To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.

Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to. The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to their particular laws. Bacon. Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be obnoxious to any private purse. Milton. Obnoxious, first or last, To basest things Milton.