Word Meanings - NEWS-LETTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A circular letter, written or printed for the purpose of disseminating news. This was the name given to the earliest English newspapers.

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• CIRCULARLY
  In a circular manner.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• PRINTLESS
  Making no imprint. Milton.
• CIRCULARITY
  The quality or state of being circular; a circular form.
• PURPOSE
  1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
• LETTERER
  One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
• PRINTA-BLE
  Worthy to be published.
• LETTERURE
  Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
• PRINT
  To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers,
• LETTER
  One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
• PRINTING IN
  A process by which cloud effects or other features not in the original negative are introduced into a photograph. Portions, such as the sky, are covered while printing and the blank space thus reserved is filled in by printing from another negative.
• LETTERN
  See LECTURN
• CIRCULAR
  1. In the form of, or bounded by, a circle; round. 2. repeating itself; ending in itself; reverting to the point of beginning; hence, illogical; inconclusive; as, circular reasoning. 3. Adhering to a fixed circle of legends; cyclic; hence, mean;
• 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.
• PURPOSER
  1. One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer. 2. One who forms a purpose; one who intends.
• LETTERLESS
  1. Not having a letter. 2. Illiterate. E. Waterhouse.
• WRITTEN
  p. p. of Write, v.
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• DISSEMINATED
  Occurring in small portions scattered through some other substance.
• 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.
• 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:
• COMPRINT
  To print surreptitiously a work belonging to another. E. Phillips. (more info) 1. To print together.
• PHOTOPRINT
  Any print made by a photomechanical process.
• CROSS-PURPOSE
  A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons. (more info)
• DISPURPOSE
  To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. A. Brewer.
• 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.