Word Meanings - ERRATUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An error or mistake in writing or printing. A single erratum may knock out the brains of a whole passage. Cowper.

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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
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• PRINTLESS
  Making no imprint. Milton.
• KNOCKSTONE
  A block upon which ore is broken up.
• WRITATIVE
  Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope.
• SINGLE
  1. To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate. Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark. Bacon. His blood! she faintly screamed her mind Still singling one from
• SINGLE-ACTING
  Having simplicity of action; especially , acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• 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
• PRINTA-BLE
  Worthy to be published.
• ERRORFUL
  Full of error; wrong. Foxe.
• WHOLE-HOOFED
  Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
• SINGLE-HANDED
  Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
• MISTAKEN
  1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
• WRIT
  3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth. Chaucer.
• KNOCK
  1. A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar. 2. A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap. " A knock at the door." Longfellow. A loud cry or some great knock. Holland. Knock off, a device in a knitting machine to remove loops from
• SINGLE-HEARTED
  Having an honest heart; free from duplicity. -- Sin"gle-heart"ed*ly, adv.
• MISTAKER
  One who mistakes. Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers. Bp. Hall.
• WRITHLE
  To wrinkle. Shak.
• 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.
• IMPRINT
  to imprint, fr. L. imprimere to impres, imprint. See 1st In-, Print, 1. To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp. And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands. Prior. 2. To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates,
• SPRINT
  To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit. (more info) Etym:
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• UNDERWRITING
  The business of an underwriter,
• COMPRINT
  To print surreptitiously a work belonging to another. E. Phillips. (more info) 1. To print together.
• UNDERWRITER
  One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.