cerography†; penmanship, craftmanship†; quill driving; typewriting.
writing, manuscript, MS., literae scriptae [Lat.]; these presents.
stroke of the pen, dash of the pen; coupe de plume; line;
headline; pen and ink.
letter &c 561; uncial writing, cuneiform character, arrowhead,
Ogham, Runes, hieroglyphic; contraction; Brahmi†, Devanagari, Nagari;
script.
shorthand; stenography, brachygraphy†, tachygraphy†; secret
writing, writing in cipher; cryptography, stenography; phonography†,
pasigraphy†, Polygraphy†, logography†.
copy; transcript, rescript; rough copy, fair copy; handwriting;
signature, sign manual; autograph, monograph, holograph; hand, fist.
calligraphy; good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand,
legible hand, bold hand.
cacography†, griffonage†, barbouillage†; bad hand, cramped hand,
crabbed hand, illegible hand; scribble &c v.; pattes de mouche [Fr.];
ill-formed letters; pothooks and hangers.
stationery; pen, quill, goose quill; pencil, style; paper,
foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar,
table; blackboard; ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well;
typewriter.
transcription &c (copy) 21; inscription &c (record) 551;
superscription &c (indication) 550; graphology.
composition, authorship; cacoethes scribendi [Lat.]; graphoidea†,
graphomania†; phrenoia†.
writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman,
copyist, transcriber, quill driver; stenographer, typewriter, typist;
writer for the press &c (author) 593.
V. write, pen; copy, engross; write out, write out fair; transcribe;
scribble, scrawl, scrabble, scratch; interline; stain paper; write down
&c (record) 551; sign &c (attest) 467; enface†.
compose, indite, draw up, draft, formulate; dictate; inscribe,
throw on paper, dash off; manifold.
take up the pen, take pen in hand; shed ink, spill ink, dip one's
pen in ink.
Adj. writing &c v.; written &c v.; in writing, in black and white;
under one's hand.
uncial, Runic, cuneiform, hieroglyphical†.
Adv. currente calamo [Sp.]; pen in hand.
Phr. audacter et sincere [Lat.]; le style est l'homme meme [Fr.];
nature's noblest gift - my gray goose quill [Byron]; scribendi recte
sapere et principium et fons [Lat.] [Horace]; that mighty instrument of
little men [Byron]; the pen became a clarion [Longfellow].