Handwriting
['hændraɪtɪŋ] or ['hænd'raɪtɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the activity of writing by hand; 'handwriting can be slow and painful for one with arthritis'.
(noun.) something written by hand; 'she recognized his handwriting'; 'his hand was illegible'.
Inputed by Effie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography.
(n.) That which is written by hand; manuscript.
Edited by Horace
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Hand, chirography, style of penmanship.
Checked by Emil
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you see and recognize your own handwriting, foretells that malicious enemies will use your expressed opinion to foil you in advancing to some competed position.
Editor: Upton
Examples
- To her, the handwriting itself, independent of anything it may convey, is a blessedness. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Always at hand will be found one or two of the laboratory note-books, with frequent entries or comments in the handwriting which once seen is never forgotten. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It contained these two sentences in Pesca's handwriting-- Your letter is received. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I have it in his own handwriting, Mr. Franklin. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The letter was in George's well-known bold handwriting. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Soon after the departure of my protégée, my servant brought me a letter, by the twopenny post; the handwriting was Lord Ponsonby's. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Ought we to appeal to the practical test of her handwriting? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Two letters have passed between these parties, letters which are admitted to be in the handwriting of the defendant, and which speak volumes, indeed. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Her handwriting and her style were both beautiful. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Don't you see, my young friend, that they were very anxious to obtain a specimen of your handwriting, and had no other way of doing it? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- On the eighth day a letter in her handwriting was placed among the other letters on my table. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- At the end he said with quiet satisfaction, _That_ is right; and then bent to look at Mary's labels and praise her handwriting. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It appears to be all in the testator's handwriting. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You saw me send the gardener on to the house, with a letter addressed, in a strange handwriting, to Miss Fairlie? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The handwriting on the direction puzzled me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Clapp, with the best of characters and handwritings, had been able very soon after his master's disaster to find other employment for himself. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Editor: Manuel