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Colophon :: Colophon (n.) An inscription, monogram, or cipher, containing the place and date of publication, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on the last page of a book..

Monument :: Monument (n.) A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions..

Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions..

Table :: Table (n.) Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing, or the like, may be produced..

Superscript :: Superscribe (v. t.) To write or engrave (a name, address, inscription, or the like) on the top or surface; to write a name, address, or the like, on the outside or cover of (anything); as, to superscribe a letter..

Heelball :: Heelball (n.) A composition of wax and lampblack, used by shoemakers for polishing, and by antiquaries in copying inscriptions..

Inscriptive :: Inscriptive (a.) Bearing inscription; of the character or nature of an inscription.

Cuniform :: Cuniform (n.) The wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions.

Legend :: Legend (n.) An inscription, motto, or title, esp. one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon an heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration..

Chronogram :: Chronogram (n.) An inscription in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs.- the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632..

Eugubine :: Eugubine (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient town of Eugubium (now Gubbio); as, the Eugubine tablets, or tables, or inscriptions..

Writing :: Writing (n.) An inscription.

Obscure :: Obscure (superl.) Not easily understood; not clear or legible; abstruse or blind; as, an obscure passage or inscription..

Dactylioglyph :: Dactylioglyph (n.) The inscription of the engraver's name on a finger ring or gem.

Transferography :: Transferography (n.) The act or process of copying inscriptions, or the like, by making transfers..

Lapidary :: Lapidary (a.) Of or pertaining to monumental inscriptions; as, lapidary adulation..

Sphenography :: Sphenography (n.) The art of writing in cuneiform characters, or of deciphering inscriptions made in such characters..

Scripture :: Scripture (n.) Anything written; a writing; a document; an inscription.

Inscription :: Inscription (n.) A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle..

Syenitic :: Syenitic (a.) Relating to Syene; as, Syenitic inscriptions..

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