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illustration, illumination; half tone; photogravure; vignette, initial letter, cul de lampe<br />

[Fr.], tailpiece.<br />

[person who inscribes on stone] lapidary, lapidarian.<br />

V. engrave, grave, stipple, scrape, etch; bite, bite in; lithograph &c n.; print.<br />

Adj. insculptured † ; engraved &c v.. [of inscriptions on stone] lapidary.<br />

Phr. sculpsit [Lat.], imprimit [Lat.].<br />

559. Artist -- N. artist; painter, limner, drawer, sketcher, designer, engraver; master, old<br />

master; draftsman, draughtsman; copyist, dauber, hack; enamel, enameler, enamelist;<br />

caricaturist.<br />

historical painter, landscape painter, marine painter, flower painter, portrait painter,<br />

miniature painter, miniaturist, scene painter, sign painter, coach painter; engraver;<br />

Apelles † ; sculptor, carver, chaser, modeler, figuriste † , statuary; Phidias, Praxiteles; Royal<br />

Academician.<br />

photographer, cinematographer, lensman, cameraman, camera technician, camera<br />

buff; wildlife photographer.<br />

Phr. photo safari; with gun and camera<br />

2. CONVENTIONAL MEANS<br />

1. Language generally<br />

560. Language -- N. language; phraseology &c 569; speech &c 582; tongue, lingo,<br />

vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue; household words; King's<br />

English, Queen's English; dialect &c 563.<br />

confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie † ; pantomime &c (signs) 550; onomatopoeia;<br />

betacism † , mimmation, myatism † , nunnation † ; pasigraphy † .<br />

lexicology, philology, glossology † , glottology † ; linguistics, chrestomathy † ; paleology † ,<br />

paleography; comparative grammar.<br />

literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres [Fr.], muses, humanities, literae<br />

humaniores [Lat.], republic of letters, dead languages, classics; genius of language;<br />

scholarship &c (scholar) 492.<br />

V. express by words &c 566.<br />

Adj. lingual, linguistic; dialectic; vernacular, current; bilingual; diglot † , hexaglot † ,<br />

polyglot; literary.<br />

Phr. syllables govern the world [Selden].<br />

561. Letter -- N. letter; character; hieroglyphic &c (writing) 590; type &c (printing) 591;<br />

capitals; digraph, trigraph; ideogram, ideograph; majuscule, minuscule; majuscule,<br />

minuscule; alphabet, ABC † , abecedary † , christcross-row.<br />

consonant, vowel; diphthong, triphthong [Gramm.]; mute, liquid, labial, dental,<br />

guttural.<br />

syllable; monosyllable, dissyllable † , polysyllable; affix, suffix.

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