Word Meanings - LITERATIM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Letter for letter.

Related words: (words related to LITERATIM)

• LETTERER
  One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
• LETTERURE
  Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
• LETTERN
  See LECTURN
• LETTER
  One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
• LETTERPRESS
  Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations. Letterpress printing, printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates.
• LETTERLESS
  1. Not having a letter. 2. Illiterate. E. Waterhouse.
• LETTERWOOD
  The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum , found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for
• LETTERING
  1. The act or business of making, or marking with, letters, as by cutting or painting. 2. The letters made; as, the lettering of a sign.
• LETTERGRAM
  See ABOVE
• LETTERED
  1. Literate; educated; versed in literature. " Are you not lettered" Shak. The unlettered barbarians willingly accepted the aid of the lettered clergy, still chiefly of Roman birth, to reduce to writing the institutes of their forefathers. Milman.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• SEA LETTER
  The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo.
• UNDERLETTER
  A tenant or lessee who grants a lease to another.
• BLACK-LETTER
  1. Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book. 2. Given to the study of books in black letter; that is, of old books; out of date. Kemble, a black-letter man! J. Boaden. 3. Of or pertaining to the days in the calendar
• BLOODLETTER
  One who, or that which, lets blood; a phlebotomist.
• NIGHT LETTER; NIGHT LETTERGRAM
  See ABOVE
• NEWS-LETTER
  A circular letter, written or printed for the purpose of disseminating news. This was the name given to the earliest English newspapers.
• RED-LETTER
  Of or pertaining to a red letter; marked by red letters. Red- letter day, a day that is fortunate or auspicious; -- so called in allusion to the custom of marking holy days, or saints' days, in the old calendars with red letters.