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The art of writing in cuneiform characters, or of deciphering inscriptions made in such characters.

A facsimile impression taken in some soft substance, as pulp, from an inscription on stone.

To write or engrave (a name, address, inscription, or the like) on the top or surface; to write a name, address, or the like, on the outside or cover of (anything); as, to superscribe a letter.

Relating to Syene; as, Syenitic inscriptions.

any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.

An inscription put over or upon anything as a name by which it is known.

The act or process of copying inscriptions, or the like, by making transfers.

n three languages. The much-noted Rosetta stone . . . bears upon its surface a trilingual inscription. I. Taylor.

one's own written testimony; -- often used reflexively. He who writes himself by his own inscription is like an ill painter, who, by writing on a shapeless picture which he hath drawn, is fain to tell passengers what shape it is, which else no man could imagine. Milton. To write to, to communicate by a written documen…

An inscription. And Pilate wrote a title . . . And the writing was, Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. John xix. 19.