Word Meanings - UNWRITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To cancel, as what is written; to erase. Milton.

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• CANCELLATE
  Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
• CANCEL
  To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Canceled figures , figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics. Syn. -- To blot out; Obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate;
• CANCELLI
  The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities. (more info) 1. An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the
• CANCELLATION
  The operation of striking out common factora, in both the dividend and divisor. (more info) 1. The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
• WRITTEN
  p. p. of Write, v.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• CANCELIER; CANCELEER
  The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop. The fierce and eager hawks, down thrilling from the skies, Make sundry canceliers are they the fowl can reach. Drayton.
• ERASEMENT
  The act of erasing; a rubbing out; expunction; obliteration. Johnson.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• ERASE
  1. To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name. 2. Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory. Burke.
• CANCELLATED
  Open or spongy, as some porous bones. (more info) 1. Crossbarres; marked with cross lines. Grew.
• CANCELIER
  To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk. Nares. He makes his stoop; but wanting breath, is forced To cancelier. Massinger. (more info) orig. to cross the legs so as not to fall; from the same word as E.
• CANCELLAREAN
  Cancellarean.
• CANCELLOUS
  Having a spongy or porous stracture; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.
• ERASED
  Represented with jagged and uneven edges, as is torn off; -- used esp. of the head or limb of a beast. Cf. Couped. (more info) 1. Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated.
• ERASER
  One who, or that which, erases; esp., a sharp instrument or a piece of rubber used to erase writings, drawings, etc.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• UNWRITTEN
  1. Not written; not reduced to writing; oral; as, unwritten agreements. 2. Containing no writing; blank; as, unwritten paper. Unwritten doctrines , such doctrines as have been handed down by word of mouth; oral or traditional doctrines.