Word Meanings - SPHENOGRAPHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art of writing in cuneiform characters, or of deciphering inscriptions made in such characters.

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• WRITING
  1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
• WRITATIVE
  Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope.
• WRITER
  1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
• DECIPHERMENT
  The act of deciphering.
• WRIT
  3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth. Chaucer.
• WRITHLE
  To wrinkle. Shak.
• WRITERSHIP
  The office of a writer.
• WRITHE
  to OHG. ridan, Icel. ri, Sw. vrida, Dan. vride. Cf. Wreathe, Wrest, 1. To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring. "With writhing of a pin." Chaucer. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and
• WRITTEN
  p. p. of Write, v.
• WRITE
  to scratch, to score; akin to OS. writan to write, to tear, to wound, D. rijten to tear, to rend, G. reissen, OHG. rizan, Icel. rita to 1. To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material
• WRITABILITY
  Ability or capacity to write. Walpole.
• DECIPHER
  1. To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters. 2. To find out, so as to be able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly
• WRITHEN
  Having a twisted distorted from. A writhen staff his step unstable guides. Fairfax.
• DECIPHERESS
  A woman who deciphers.
• WRITABLE
  Capable of, or suitable for, being written down.
• CUNEIFORM; CUNIFORM
  1. The wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions. I. Taylor . One of the three tarsal bones supporting the first, second third metatarsals. They are usually designated as external, middle, and internal,
• DECIPHERER
  One who deciphers.
• DECIPHERABLE
  Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable.
• REWRITE
  To write again. Young.
• TYPEWRITING
  The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• MESOCUNEIFORM; MESOCUNIFORM
  One of the bones of the tarsus. See 2d Cuneiform.
• UNDERWRITING
  The business of an underwriter,
• ENTOCUNEIFORM; ENTOCUNIFORM
  One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform.
• UNDERWRITER
  One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
• UNWRITE
  To cancel, as what is written; to erase. Milton.
• INDECIPHERABLE
  Not decipherable; incapable of being deciphered, explained, or solved. -- In`de*ci"pher*a*bly, adv.
• HANDWRITING
  1. The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography. 2. That which is written by hand; manuscript. The handwriting on the wall, a doom pronounced; an omen of disaster. Dan. v. 5.
• OUTWRITE
  To exceed or excel in writing.