Word Meanings - CHARTOMANCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Divination by written paper or by cards.

Related words: (words related to CHARTOMANCY)

• PAPERY
  Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper. Gray.
• WRITTEN
  p. p. of Write, v.
• DIVINATION
  1. The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means. There shall not be found among you any one that . . . useth divination, or an observer of times, or an
• PAPER
  1. A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried.
• PAPERWEIGHT
  See N
• CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
  Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
• BROMIDE PAPER; BROMID PAPER
  A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging.
• CAPPAPER
  See N
• BLOTTING PAPER
  A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.
• NOTE PAPER
  Writing paper, not exceeding in size, when folded once, five by eight inches.
• CASSE PAPER
  Broken paper; the outside quires of a ream.
• ALPHA PAPER
  A sensitized paper for obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride.
• 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.
• JOSS PAPER
  Gold and silver paper burned by the Chinese, in the form of coins or ingots, in worship and at funerals.
• TOUCH-PAPER
  Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.
• OZONE PAPER
  Paper coated with starch and potassium iodine. It turns blue when exposed to ozone.>-- also called starch-iodide paper -->
• SANDPAPER
  Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing.
• NEWSPAPER
  A sheet of paper printed and distributed, at stated intervals, for conveying intelligence of passing events, advocating opinions, etc.; a public print that circulates news, advertisements, proceedings of legislative bodies, public announcements,
• ASTHMA PAPER
  Paper impregnated with saltpeter. The fumes from the burning paper are often inhaled as an alleviative by asthmatics.
• TORCHON PAPER
  Paper with a rough surface; esp., handmade paper of great hardness for the use of painters in water colors.