Word Meanings - HIEROGLYPHIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich feather is a symbol of truth; third, the phonetic, consisting of symbols employed as syllables of a word, or as letters of the alphabet, having a certain sound, as a hawk represented the vowel a.

Representer
One who shows, exhibits, or describes.
Whichsoever
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
Employable
Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use.
Sacrific
Alt. of Sacrifical
FEATHERBRAINED
Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed. [Colloq.]
Featherness
The state or condition of being feathery.
Sacristan
An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton.
IDEOGRAPHICIDEOGRAPHICAL
Of or pertaining to an ideogram; representing ideas by symbols, independently of sounds; as, 9 represents not the word "nine," but the idea of the number itself. -- I`de*o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
Havanese
Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba.
Second-class
Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second-rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.
THREECOAT
Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat.
Hieroglyphical
Emblematic; expressive of some meaning by characters, pictures, or figures; as, hieroglyphic writing; a hieroglyphic obelisk.
Soundless
Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable.
THREESIDED
Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
Objectivation
Converting into an object.
Symbolizer
One who symbolizes.
Picturesquish
Somewhat picturesque.
Three-leafed
Alt. of Three-leaved
Certainly
Without doubt or question; unquestionably.
Properispomena
of Properispomenon

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