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Mentioned afterwards; as, persons after-mentioned (in a writing).

To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish. To smart and agonize at every pore. Pope.

Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane. Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly. Luke xxii. 44.…

The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia.

The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises. Abbott. Brande & C.

An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.

the Mediterranean and Atlantic, is called in New England the horse mackerel; the tunny. [Written also albacore.]

A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc.

More commonly, inability, due to brain disease, to understand written or printed symbols although they can be seen, as in case of word blindness.

eration of algebra, or deduced from such operation; as, algebraic characters; algebraical writings. Algebraic curve, a curve such that the equation which expresses the relation between the coördinates of its points involves only the ordinary operations of algebra; -- opposed to a transcendental curve.…

A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.

One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. Hume.

To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it.

e real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.

"Allowed." The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer.

A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto; -- opposed to autograph.

rranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.

expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement.

female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill. [Written also amaduvad and avadavat.]

A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.