Handwriting


writing done with a pen or pencil in the hand; script.
a style or manner of writing by hand, especially that which characterizes a particular person; penmanship:
an eccentric handwriting.
a handwritten doc-ment; m-n-script.
handwriting on the wall, a premonition, portent, or clear indication, especially of failure or disaster:
the company had ignored the handwriting on the wall and was plunged into bankruptcy.
also, writing on the wall.
to write (something) by hand.
contemporary examples

edmund white: s-x, success, and survival tim teeman february 10, 2014
-n-lyzing michael jackson’s handwriting arlyn imberman july 23, 2009
the john edwards verdict waiting game diane dimond may 25, 2012
the john edwards verdict waiting game diane dimond may 25, 2012
j. edgar hoover unmasked sandra mcelwaine november 6, 2011

historical examples

red money fergus hume
brave and bold horatio alger
heart and science wilkie collins
in the midst of alarms robert barr
home-life of the lancashire factory folk during the cotton famine edwin waugh

noun
writing by hand rather than by typing or printing
a person’s characteristic writing style: that signature is in my handwriting
n.

an ordinary note in his [horace greeley’s] handwriting is said to have been used for a long time as a railroad p-ss, then as a servant’s recommendation, and finally taken to a drug-store as a doctor’s prescription. [“frank leslie’s magazine,” august 1884]

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