Search the Dictionary

A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a telegram; laconic; concise; brief. [R.]

The mystic number four, which was often symbolized to represent the Deity, whose name was expressed by four letters among some ancient nations; as, the Hebrew JeHoVaH, Greek qeo`s, Latin deus, etc.

The trace or record made by means of a thermograph.

Something intricately contrived; a contrived; a puzzle. [Cant & Obs.] Arbuthnot.

Same as Trigraph.

Containing three letters or characters, or three sets of letters or characters.

Same as Trigrammatic.

e like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard. Abacus harmonicus (Mus.), an ancient diagram showing the structure and disposition of the keys of an instrument. Crabb.

ender, number, and case, both words forming a clause by themselves and being unconnected, grammatically, with the rest of the sentence; as, Tarquinio regnante, Pythagoras venit, i. e., Tarquinius reigning, Pythagoras came.

The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar. Milton.

In relation to the accusative case in grammar.

A plant of the highest class of cryptograms, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia. The Age of Acrogens (Geol.), the age of coal plants, or the carboniferous era.

A cultivated variety of the Asiatic gram, now introduced into the United States.

t, or to the side parallel to the base; as, the altitude of a triangle, pyramid, parallelogram, frustum, etc.

standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampère.

Lacking grammatical sequence. -- An`a*co*lu"thic*al*ly, adv.

A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.

r Geometry. -- Analytic language, a noninflectional language or one not characterized by grammatical endings. -- Analytical table (Nat. Hist.), a table in which the characteristics of the species or other groups are arranged so as to facilitate the determination of their names.

wers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; -- particularly applied to a collection of ancient Greek epigrams.