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illuminating or ornamenting with colored and decorated letters and figures, as a book or manuscript. [R.] Palsgrave.

e, and are used for umbrellas, tents, and roofs. When cut up, they are used for books and manuscripts.

A leaf of a book or manuscript.

That which is written by hand; manuscript. The handwriting on the wall, a doom pronounced; an omen of disaster. Dan. v. 5.

An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break.

e with borders, initial letters, or miniature pictures in colors and gold, as was done in manuscripts of the Middle Ages.

Adornment of books and manuscripts with colored illustrations. See Illuminate, v. t., 3.

One whose occupation is to adorn books, especially manuscripts, with miniatures, borders, etc. See Illuminate, v. t., 3.

Not edited; unpublished; as, an inedited manuscript. T. Warton.

structs; a textbook; a system of elements or rules; an institute. [Obs.] There is another manuscript, of above three hundred years old, . . . being an institution of physic. Evelyn.

between lines already written or printed; containing interlineations; as, an interlinear manuscript, translation, etc. -- In`ter*lin"e*ar*ly, adv.

iphered; distinct to the eye; plain; - - used of writing or printing; as, a fair, legible manuscript. The stone with moss and lichens so overspread, Nothing is legible but the name alone. Longfellow.

One who copies manuscript books. [Obs.] Broome.

rds. Lombardic alphabet, the ancient alphabet derived from the Roman, and employed in the manuscript of Italy. -- Lombardic architecture, the debased Roman style of architecture as found in parts of Northern Italy. F. G. Lee. Lombardy poplar. (Bot.) See Poplar.

Capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier.

A capital letter; especially, one used in ancient manuscripts. See Majusculæ. Majuscule writing, writing composed wholly of capital letters, especially the style which prevailed in Europe from the third to the sixth century.

Written manuscript, or anything to be set in type; copy; also, type set up and ready to be used, or which has been used, in printing. Dead matter (Print.), type which has been used, or which is not to be used, in printing, and is ready for distribution. -- Live matter (Print.), type set up, but not yet printed from.…

or vermilion; also, to decorate with letters, or the like, painted red, as the page of a manuscript. T. Wharton.

Originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediæval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.

A small Roman letter which is neither capital nor uncial; a manuscript written in such letters. -- a.