Word Meanings - CHIROGRAPHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The art of writing or engrossing; handwriting; as, skilled in chirography. 2. The art of telling fortunes by examining the hand.

Related words: (words related to CHIROGRAPHY)

• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• 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
• EXAMINABLE
  Capable of being examined or inquired into. Bacon.
• TELLER
  1. One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer. 2. One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king. Cowell. 3. An officer
• WRITATIVE
  Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope.
• EXAMINING
  Having power to examine; appointed to examine; as, an examining committee.
• SKILLED
  Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.
• TELLABLE
  Capable of being told.
• SKILLIGALEE
  A kind of thin, weak broth or oatmeal porridge, served out to prisoners and paupers in England; also, a drink made of oatmeal, sugar, and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army.
• TELLEN
  Any species of Tellina.
• 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
• WRIT
  3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth. Chaucer.
• TELLURIZE
  To impregnate with, or to subject to the action of, tellurium; -- chiefly used adjectively in the past participle; as, tellurized ores.
• TELLURIC
  Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or resembling, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with tellurous compounds; as, telluric acid, which is analogous to sulphuric
• WRITHLE
  To wrinkle. Shak.
• CHIROGRAPHY
  1. The art of writing or engrossing; handwriting; as, skilled in chirography. 2. The art of telling fortunes by examining the hand.
• TELL
  1. To give an account; to make report. That I may publish with the voice of thankgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works. Ps. xxvi. 7. 2. To take effect; to produce a marked effect; as, every shot tells; every expression tells. To tell of.
• TELLURAL
  Of or pertaining to the earth.
• EXAMINANT
  1. One who examines; an examiner. Sir W. Scott. 2. One who is to be examined. H. Prideaux.
• 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.
• PATELLULA
  A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.
• CROSS-EXAMINER
  One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
• REWRITE
  To write again. Young.
• SCUTELLUM
  A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens. The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the
• 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.
• RETELL
  To tell again.
• ROSTELLAR
  Pertaining to a rostellum.
• UNDERWRITING
  The business of an underwriter,
• PATELLAR
  Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneepan.
• STELLED
  Firmly placed or fixed. "The stelled fires" . Shak.
• PREEXAMINATION
  Previous examination.
• INTERSTELLAR
  Between or among the stars; as, interstellar space. Bacon.