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n. The act or an instance of inscribing.

n. A marking, such as the wording on a coin, medal, monument, or seal, that is inscribed.

n. A piece of material, such as a stone or metal tablet, that is inscribed.

n. An enrollment or a registration of names.

n. A short, signed message in a book or on a photograph given as a gift.

n. The usually informal dedication of a book or an artistic work.

n. Text carved on a wall or plaque, such as a memorial or gravestone.

n. The text on a coin.

n. Words written in the front of a book as a dedication.

n. The act or process of inscribing.

n. That which is inscribed; something written or engraved; especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid substance for preservation or public inspection

n. A line of division or intersection.

n. An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of a book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of patronage.

n. The act of inscribing, in any sense of that word.

n. Inscribed symbols, letters, or words; specifically, a descriptive, explanatory, or illustrative memorandum, as a name, title, motto, panegyric, etc., written, engraved, or stamped, as on a monument, a medal, etc.: as, an inscription on a tombstone, on a gem, a book, or a picture; the inscriptions on the obverse and reverse of a coin or a medal.

n. Specifically In archœol., a historical, religious, or other record cut, impressed, painted, or written on stone, brick, metal, or other hard surface: as, the inscription on the Rosetta or the Moabite stone; the cuneiform inscriptions on rocks or brick cylinders; the inscriptions on the Egyptian temples or in the Roman catacombs; the inscriptions on Greek vases, votive tablets of terra-cotta, etc.

n. A form of complimentary presentation or offering of a book or work of art, less elaborate than a dedication.

n. In early church music, a sign or motto, or both combined, placed at the beginning of a canon written in an enigmatical manner, to show how it was to be resolved. The inscription was often designedly more puzzling than the canon itself.

n. In the civil law, a consent by an accuser that, if the accusation be false, he will submit to the same punishment which would have been inflicted upon the accused had he been guilty.

n. Entry on the calendar, as of a cause in court.

n. In geometry, the inscribingof one figure in another; also, the state of being so inscribed.

n. A tendinous line interrupting the fleshy fibers of a muscle: seen especially in the abdominal muscles.

n. a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something

n. the activity of inscribing (especially carving or engraving) letters or words

n. letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something

"Auschwitz theft suspect extradited 'this week' (7 Apr 10) Högström has denied plotting to steal the sign -- whose German inscription translates as "Work Will Set You Free" -- Boguslawa Marcinkowska, spokeswoman for prosecutors in Krakow, southern Poland, said without giving further details."

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delineation    superscription    subscription    indorsement    epigram    epigraph    epitaph    petroglyph    exergue    lapidary   

Egyptian    conniption    conscription    description    encryption    nonprescription    prescription    proscription    subscription    transcription   

monument    painting    manuscript    legend    poem    writing    document    relic    memorial    decoration