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To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle. [Obs.] Chapman.

A kind of ornament consisting of a narrow fillet or band folded, crossed, and interlaced.

Pertaining to, or depended upon, the order or arrangement of strata; as, stratigraphical evidence. -- Strat`i*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

That branch of geology which treats of the arrangement and succession of strata.

Of or pertaining to stratography.

A description of an army, or of what belongs to an army.

A stylographic pen.

Of or pertaining to stylography; used in stylography; as, stylographic tablets.

Same as Stylographic, 1. -- Sty`lo*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

A mode of writing or tracing lines by means of a style on cards or tablets.

Situated above the foot of a mollusk; as, the suprapedal gland.

An acceptance of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance by the drawee. Burrill.

Situated above, or anterior to, the pubic bone.

A description of the ligaments; syndesmology.

A writing signed by both or all the parties to a contract or bond.

A recording or registering tachometer; also, its autographic record.

An example of tachygraphy; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman tachygraphic manuscript.

One who writes shorthand; a stenographer; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman notary.

Of or pertaining to tachygraphy; written in shorthand.

The art or practice of rapid writing; shorthand writing; stenography. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).