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Lettering definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LET'TERING, ppr. Impressing or forming letters on; as lettering a book on the cover.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something [syn: inscription, lettering]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1789 letters used in an inscription

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the process of inscribing letters. 2 letters inscribed.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lettering Let"ter*ing, n. 1. The act or business of making, or marking with, letters, as by cutting or painting. 2. The letters made; as, the lettering of a sign.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Letter Let"ter (l[e^]t"t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lettered (-t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Lettering.] To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Lettering is writing, especially when you are describing the type of letters used. ...a small blue sign with white lettering. N-UNCOUNT: usu supp N

Moby Thesaurus

Italian hand, Spencerian writing, block letter, bold hand, book hand, chancery hand, copperplate hand, coup de plume, cryptography, cursive, cursive hand, engrossment, epigraph, initialing, ink spilling, inkslinging, inscription, law hand, longhand, macrography, majuscule script, micrography, minuscule script, pen, pen-and-ink, pencil driving, printing, round hand, scrivenery, scrivening, secret writing, text hand, transcription, transliteration, typewriting, typing, uncial, writing