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or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.

In an initial or incipient manner or degree; at the beginning. Barrow.

Having a common beginning.

The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.

The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.

Abecedarian. Double acrostic, a species of enigma, in which words are to be guessed whose initial and final letters form other words.

es from Latin words with ae, it is mostly superseded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E.

An initial sound, as of a word or syllable.

The rough breathing; a mark placed over an initial vowel sound or over h before it; thus hws, pronounced h, hrj'twr, pronounced hra\'b6t.

A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.

To print in capital letters, or with an initial capital.

othermal compression to such a point that (4) adiabatic compression brings it back to its initial state.

A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre. Soft chancre. A chancroid. See Chancroid.

A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc. The cut represents the initials N. W.

ime committed (in the latter case, generally under oath); an information; accusation; the initial bill in proceedings in equity.

A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a dipthong; synæresis; as, cogo for coago.

As a numeral D stands for 500. in this use it is not the initial of any word, or even strictly a letter, but one half of the sign

process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root and the stem, the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds; or in animal life, when the germ evolves the digestive and other organs and members, or when the animals as they advance in organization acquire special organs for specifi…

Pertaining to, or treating of, the elements, rudiments, or first principles of anything; initial; rudimental; introductory; as, an elementary treatise.

ke of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together.