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A maker of, or writer for, a cyclopedia.

A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller.

The Welsh language. [Written also Kymric.]

A collective term for the Welsh race; -- so called by themselves . [Written also Cymri, Cwmry, Kymry, etc.]

A rule for construing written instruments so as to conform as nearly to the intention of the parties as is consistent with law. Mozley & W.

In old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder. [Written also cystis.]

A king; a chief; the title of the emperor of Russia. [Written also tzar.]

; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. [Written also dactyle.]

The art of writing or engraving upon gems.

A writer of dactylic verse.

y tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux. [Written also Dacotahs.]

A scurf which forms on the head, and comes off in small or particles. [Written also dandriff.]

Relatingto, emanating from or resembling, the poet Dante or his writings.

A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis. John Wilson.…

That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made; as, the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin. etc. And bonds without a date, they say, are void. Dryden.

A borosilicate of lime commonly occuring in glassy,, greenish crystals. [Written also datholite.]

that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural. Any writer, therefore, who . . . furnishes us with data sufficient to determine the time in which he wrote. Priestley.

A kind of small writing table, generally somewhat ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir. A much battered davenport in one of the windows, at which sat a lady writing. A. B. Edwards.

, a language which is no longer spoken or in common use by a people, and is known only in writings, as the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. -- Dead letter. (a) A letter which, after lying for a certain fixed time uncalled for at the post office to which it was directed, is then sent to the general post office to be opened. (…

A kind of woolen or mixed dress goods. [Written also debage.]