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A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.

on of ideas independently of sounds, or in an ideographic manner, as sometimes is done in shorthand writing, etc.

A mode of reporting speeches without using shorthand, -- a number of reporters, each in succession, taking down three or four words. Brande & C.

The written characters used in the common method of writing; -- opposed to shorthand.

One who records in shorthand what is said or done; as, the notary of an ecclesiastical body.

A representation of sounds by distinctive characters; commonly, a system of shorthand writing invented by Isaac Pitman, or a modification of his system, much used by reporters.

The signs, abbreviations, letters, or characters standing for words, shorthand, etc., in ancient manuscripts, or on coins, medals, etc. W. Savage.

A production of stenography; anything written in shorthand. I saw the reporters' room, in which they redact their hasty stenographs. Emerson.

One who is skilled in stenography; a writer of shorthand.

The art of writing in shorthand, by using abbreviations or characters for whole words; shorthand.

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).

Of or pertaining to Tiro, or a system of shorthand said to have been introduced by him into ancient Rome.