Word Meanings - CACOGRAPHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Incorrect or bad writing or spelling. Walpole.
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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 - INCORRECT
1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope. 2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation. 3. Not - WRITATIVE
Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope. - SPELLBIND
To bind or hold by, or as if by, a spell or charm; to fascinate, esp. by eloquence of speech, as in a political campaign. - - Spell"bind`er , n. - 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 - SPELLFUL
Abounding in spells, or charms. Here, while his eyes the learned leaves peruse, Each spellful mystery explained he views. Hoole. - WRIT
3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth. Chaucer. - INCORRECTLY
Not correctly; inaccurately; not exactly; as, a writing incorrectly copied; testimony incorrectly stated. - WRITHLE
To wrinkle. Shak. - SPELLER
1. One who spells. 2. A spelling book. - 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 - SPELLING
Of or pertaining to spelling. Spelling bee, a spelling match. -- Spelling book, a book with exercises for teaching children to spell; a speller. -- Spelling match, a contest of skill in spelling words, between two or more persons. - SPELLBOUND
Bound by, or as by, a spell. - SPELLWORK
Power or effect of magic; that which is wrought by magic; enchantment. Like those Peri isles of light That hang by spellwork in the air. Moore. - WRITTEN
p. p. of Write, v. - SPELLKEN
A theater. Byron. - 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. - INCORRECTNESS
The quality of being incorrect; want of conformity to truth or to a standard; inaccuracy; inexactness; as incorrectness may in defect or in redundance. - 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. - RESPELL
To spell again. - UNDERWRITING
The business of an underwriter, - 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. - 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.