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A kind of basketwork wear in a river, for catching fish. [Improperly spelled kittle.]

d, as the osier cornel (Cornus stolonijra), and the bearberry (Arctostaphylus Uva-ursi). [Spelled also kinnickinnick and killikinick.]

d white blossoms, said by Homer to have been given by Hermes to Ulysses to counteract the spells of Circe. Milton.

Customary; ordinary; -- applied to the usual English spelling, in distinction from strictly phonetic methods. H Sweet. -- n.

One versed in orthography; one who spells words correctly.

Of or pertaining to orthography, or right spelling; also, correct in spelling; as, orthographical rules; the letter was orthographic.

according to the rules of proper spelling;

One who spells words correctly; an orthographer.

To spell correctly or according to usage; to correct in regard to spelling. In the coalesced into ith, which modern reaction has orthographized to i' th'. Earle.

riting words with the proper letters, according to standard usage; conventionally correct spelling; also, mode of spelling; as, his orthography is vicious. When spelling no longer follows the pronunciation, but is hardened into orthography. Earle.

as a protection against disease or mischief; an amulet. Coleridge. Now help, ye charming spells and periapts. Shak.

ds; as, phonetic characters; -- opposed to ideographic; as, a phonetic notation. Phonetic spelling, spelling in phonetic characters, each representing one sound only; -- contrasted with Romanic spelling, or that by the use of the Roman alphabet.

One who advocates a phonetic spelling.

One of the ordinary zooids of the Bryozoa. [Spellt also polypid.]

A written character curved like a pothook; (pl.) a scrawled writing. "I long to be spelling her Arabic scrawls and pothooks." Dryden.

A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner. As he sat in the school at his prymer. Chaucer.

A light kind of crossbow; -- in the sense, often spelled prodd. Fairholt.

To write " query" (qu., qy., or ) against, as a doubtful spelling, or sense, in a proof. See Quære.

to perceive, especially as if by smelling; -- associated in meaning with sent, the older spelling of scent to smell. See Resent, v. i. [Obs.] This bird of prey resented a worse than earthly savor in the soul of Saul. Fuller. Our King Henry the Seventh quickly resented his drift. Fuller.

ent; -- said especially of races and nations speaking any of the Romanic tongues. Romanic spelling, spelling by means of the letters of the Roman alphabet, as in English; -- contrasted with phonetic spelling.