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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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23 words match “HANDWRITING”

HANDWRITING n. 2 definitions

That which is written by hand; manuscript. The handwriting on the wall, a doom pronounced; an omen of disaster. Dan. v. 5.

AUTOGRAPH n. 2 definitions

which is written with one's own hand; an original manuscript; a person's own signature or handwriting.

AUTOGRAPHIC; AUTOGRAPHICAL a.

Pertaining to an autograph, or one's own handwriting; of the nature of an autograph.

The science of autographs; a person's own handwriting; an autograph.

BACKHAND n. 2 definitions

A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.

Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the peculiar form of letters used by a particular person or people; as, an inscription in the Runic character. You know the character to be your brother's Shak.

The art of writing or engrossing; handwriting; as, skilled in chirography.

Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting. -- Crab"bed*ly, adv. -- Crab"bed*ness, n.

Running; flowing. Cursive hand,a running handwriting.

Distinct; legible; as, fair handwriting.

The art of judging of a person's character, disposition, and aptitude from his handwriting.

HAND n. 2 definitions

Handwriting; style of penmanship; as, a good, bad or running hand. Hence, a signature. I say she never did invent this letter; This is a man's invention and his hand. Shak. Some writs require a judge's hand. Burril.

A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be.

Incapable of being read; not legible; as, illegible handwriting; an illegible inscription. -- Il*leg"i*ble*ness, n. -- Il*leg"i*bly, adv.

Imitation of another's handwriting,

Applied to a signature when the body of the instrument is in another's handwriting. Burrill.

PLASTOGRAPHY n.

Imitation of handwriting; forgery.

POLYAUTOGRAPHY n.

The act or practice of multiplying copies of one's own handwriting, or of manuscripts, by printing from stone, -- a species of lithography.

Type made in imitation of handwriting.

To affix a signature to; to ratify by hand or seal; to subscribe in one's own handwriting. Inquire the Jew's house out, give him this deed, And let him sign it. Shak.