Definition of letter

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Letter (n.) Learning; erudition; as, a man of letters..

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Palatize :: Palatize (v. t.) To modify, as the tones of the voice, by means of the palate; as, to palatize a letter or sound..
Accreditation :: Accreditation (n.) The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation..
Charact :: Charact (n.) A distinctive mark; a character; a letter or sign. [Obs.] See Character.
Transfuse :: Transfuse (v. t.) To cause to pass from to another; to cause to be instilled or imbibed; as, to transfuse a spirit of patriotism into a man; to transfuse a love of letters..
Philomathy :: Philomathy (n.) The love of learning or letters.
Tenuis :: Tenuis (n.) One of the three surd mutes /, /, /; -- so called in relation to their respective middle letters, or medials, /, /, /, and their aspirates, /, /, /. The term is also applied to the corresponding letters and articulate elements in other languages..
Logogram :: Logogram (n.) A word letter; a phonogram, that, for the sake of brevity, represents a word; as, |, i. e., t, for it. Cf. Grammalogue..
Rhotacism :: Rhotacism (n.) An oversounding, or a misuse, of the letter r; specifically (Phylol.), the tendency, exhibited in the Indo-European languages, to change s to r, as wese to were..
Q :: Q () the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, has but one sound (that of k), and is always followed by u, the two letters together being sounded like kw, except in some words in which the u is silent. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 249. Q is not found in Anglo-Saxon, cw being used instead of qu; as in cwic, quick; cwen, queen. The name (k/) is from the French ku, which is from the Latin name of the same letter; its form is from the Latin, which derived it, through a Greek alphabet, from th
Provection :: Provection (n.) A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename..
Space :: Space (n.) To arrange or adjust the spaces in or between; as, to space words, lines, or letters..
Lettering :: Lettering (n.) The act or business of making, or marking with, letters, as by cutting or painting..
Nasalize :: Nasalize (v. t.) To utter words or letters with a nasal sound; to speak through the nose.
Algebra :: Algebra (n.) That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is applicable to those relations that are true of every kind of magnitude.
Quadrat :: Quadrat (n.) A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines..
Literal :: Literal (a.) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters..
Cachet :: Cachet (n.) A seal, as of a letter..
Scribble :: Scribble (v. t.) To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter..
Apostrophe :: Apostrophe (n.) The mark ['] used to denote that a word is contracted (as in ne'er for never, can't for can not), and as a sign of the possessive, singular and plural; as, a boy's hat, boys' hats. In the latter use it originally marked the omission of the letter e..
Literalism :: Literalism (n.) That which accords with the letter; a mode of interpreting literally; adherence to the letter.
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