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, the division of the text of books into lines accommodated to the sense, - - a method of writing manuscripts used before punctuation was adopted.

Divination by writing on the bark of a tree.

A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation.

A mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke. O, lasting as those colors may they shine, Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line. Pope.

An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax.

One who is a master or a model of style, especially in writing or speaking; a critic of style. Distinguished as a stylist, for ease. Fitzed. Hall.

A mode of writing or tracing lines by means of a style on cards or tablets.

An instrument for writing. See Style, n., 1. That needle-shaped part at the tip of the playing arm of phonograph which sits in the groove of a phonograph record while it is turning, to detect the undulations in the phonograph groove and convert them into vibrations which are transmitted to a system (since 1920 electron…

A grand or lofty style in speaking or writing; a style that expresses lofty conceptions. The sublime rises from the nobleness of thoughts, the magnificence of words, or the harmonious and lively turn of the phrase. Addison.

hand; to give consent to, as something written, or to bind one's self to the terms of, by writing one's name beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond. All the bishops subscribed the sentence. Milman.

Consent or attestation by underwriting the name.

The act of writing the name under something, as for attestation. [R.] Shelton.

Larger than royal; -- said of a particular size of printing and writing paper. See the Note under Paper, n.

s to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit; as, a supposititious child; a supposititious writing. Bacon.

is time that there were an end and surcease made of this immodest and deformed manner of writing. Bacon.

to a certain pitch, degree, or level; uniform; as, sustained pasion; a sustained style of writing; a sustained note in music.

Consisting of a syllable or syllables; as, a syllabic augment. "The syllabic stage of writing." Earle.

In writing and printing, a part of a word, separated from the rest, and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice. It may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken language. Withouten vice [i. e. mistake] of syllable or letter. Chaucer.

A writing signed by both or all the parties to a contract or bond.

The art or practice of rapid writing; shorthand writing; stenography. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).