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again, or in the same words; to copy; as, to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter.

ed or imbibed; as, to transfuse a spirit of patriotism into a man; to transfuse a love of letters. Into thee such virtue and grace Immense I have transfused. Milton.

e characters of another alphabet; as, to transliterate Sanskrit words by means of English letters. A. J. Ellis.

The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to another.

to substitute one for the other of; to exchange, in respect of position; as, to transpose letters, words, or propositions.

Containing three letters or characters, or three sets of letters or characters.

Three letters united in pronunciation so as to have but one sound, or to form but one syllable, as -ieu in adieu; a triphthong.

Consisting of three letters; trigrammic; as, a triliteral root or word. -- n.

m and the cardinal and four lords; at the which trist he and the cardinal agreed finally. Letter dated Sept., 1543.

The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in one plane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioid…

on for labor to; -- used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.

A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing.

U, the twenty-first letter of the English alphabet, is a cursive form of the letter V, with which it was formerly used interchangeably, both letters being then used both as vowels and consonants. U and V are now, however, differentiated, U being used only as a vowel or semivowel, and V only as a consonant. The true pri…

Having the form of the letter U; specif. (Phys. Geog.),

Not answered; not replied; as, an unanswered letter.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a certain style of letters used in ancient manuscripts, esp. in Greek and Latin manuscripts. The letters are somewhat rounded, and the upstrokes and downstrokes usually have a slight inclination. These letters were used as early as the 1st century b. c., and were seldom used after the…

To decipher; as, to uncipher a letter. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes.

Not dated; having no date; of unknown age; as, an undated letter.

To write one's name at the foot or end of, as a letter or any legal instrument. The undersigned, the person whose name is signed, or the persons whose names are signed, at the end of a document; the subscriber or subscribers.