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p. p. of Write, v.

Not written; not reduced to writing; oral; as, unwritten agreements.

to connect a with the verbal substantive (as, a-hunting, a-building) or the words may be written separately. This form of expression is now for the most part obsolete, the a being omitted and the verbal substantive treated as a participle.

ferent cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36½, at Hamburg 38¼. [Written also Aum and Awm.]

riefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken. It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off. Bacon.

A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon.

To mark with the written accent.

execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise. This that is written must yet be accomplished in me. Luke xxii. 37.

A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.

ing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. [Written also akene and achænium.]

To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to; to accost. Are not your orders to address the senate Addison. The representatives of the nation addressed the king. Swift.

f the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. [Written also adapter.]

Far on in life or time. A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles. Hawthorne. Advanced guard, a detachment of troops which precedes the march of the main body.

bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve. [Written also eolipile.]

A written or printed notice to be posted, as on a wall; a poster; a placard.

The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia.

The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises. Abbott. Brande & C.

the Mediterranean and Atlantic, is called in New England the horse mackerel; the tunny. [Written also albacore.]

More commonly, inability, due to brain disease, to understand written or printed symbols although they can be seen, as in case of word blindness.

rranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.