Noun : the letter of the law. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : He lettered in track at Harvard. From Dictionary.com.
Look at the lettering -- that is, the labels lettered with the titles of books -- in all libraries that are not of recent date. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1] Reference
The answer was on his lips even before his eyes discovered the boat she carried on top of the fo'c'sle, with her name lettered upon it. From Wordnik.com. [Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories] Reference
All cases should be numbered and lettered, that is, each section should have a number, and each shelf a letter. From Wordnik.com. [The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books] Reference
I said, running my finger down the side of the box, over the "lettered" relief. From Wordnik.com. [non-voyant - French Word-A-Day] Reference
But he didn't have the qualification that all "lettered" men had: a good knowledge of Latin. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Leveen: E-books: What Would da Vinci Say? Ross King's New Reading] Reference
"Large-lettered like Hell's masterpiece of print.". From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
The footnotes are lettered from A to I, K to T and V to. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of the expedition to Carthagena, with explanatory notes and observations] Reference
The sign isn't gone, but it's smaller and hand-lettered. From Wordnik.com. [Bison] Reference
Fashion is like a new book "elegantly bound and lettered.". From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
Terence and a Juvenal; the second, curiously enough, lettered. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
Every morocco bound book can be lettered directly upon the leather. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
THE PENNY POST for 1853 is now ready, bound in cloth, lettered, with. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
His name was lettered neatly on the outside of the door to the office. From Wordnik.com. [Anchorite] Reference
Hand-lettered signs advertised "Family Movie Night" for the coming weekend. From Wordnik.com. [Developer John Freeman has created a tiny utopia at Kingsley Commons] Reference
First of all they found that the dormitories, eleven in all, were lettered. From Wordnik.com. [Billie Bradley at Three Towers Hall or, Leading a Needed Rebellion] Reference
"The Childress Barber College" read the neatly lettered sign above the door. From Wordnik.com. [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference
The footnotes in the original book are sometimes numbered, sometimes lettered. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Some have a single supplement as in "Negroes Never Die," whose rhyming is lettered. From Wordnik.com. [Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study] Reference
Some have double supplements as in "Frog Went a-Courting" whose rhyming is lettered. From Wordnik.com. [Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study] Reference
A sign hung over its door which bore the rudely lettered words: "Rutledge's Tavern.". From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
The shelves may also be lettered with letters of the alphabet cut out of gold paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
Through dress the mind may be read, as through the delicate tissue the lettered page. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
On each side there is a plain double panel, 'blind' tooled; the back is simply lettered. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
He sleeps with the undistinguishable multitude, and his headstone is lettered, "Unknown.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
The construction of the mold for each section is shown by the correspondingly lettered detail. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
But the African nation's nicely lettered signposts of progress and development masked a jarring problem. From Wordnik.com. [Gangs of Nairobi] Reference
The car approached again, on the right, this time with a hand-lettered sign: COLIN POWELL FOR PRESIDENT. From Wordnik.com. [Can Colin Powell Save America?] Reference
Border family, some black-lettered volume of ballads doubtlessly slumbers in hallowed and unbroken dust. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
Her hair was long and golden and shone in the afternoon sunlight that drifted through the lettered windows. From Wordnik.com. [The Kiss] Reference
I have comics that I did dating back to when I was two or three years old, I think, that my mom lettered for me. From Wordnik.com. [Love Is A (Video) Game In 'Scott Pilgrim' Battles] Reference
The casually lettered sign on the sidewalk in front of Dance Theater Workshop says "Live Drawing Tonight 5 9 p.m.". From Wordnik.com. [Drawn Into His Web] Reference
Even Gorey's hand-lettered captions -- like some obsolescent calligrapher's forlorn imitation of type -- were unmistakable. From Wordnik.com. [E Is For Edward, Whose Work Was So Strange] Reference
My friend had gone away and left no reminder of himself save a notice he had lettered with a marking brush on his front door. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Road] Reference
I'm great with kids, having lettered in football, basketball and track in high school and coached several sports in public schools. From Wordnik.com. [Catch-22 For A Transplant] Reference
The dead men's smiling faces jump out of framed photos that sit adjacent to flickering candles and carefully lettered prayer cards. From Wordnik.com. ['They Never Did Come Back'] Reference
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