Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Writing done with the hand.
- n. The writing characteristic of a particular person.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography; penmanship.
- n. That which is written by hand; manuscript.
Wiktionary
- n. The act or process of writing done with the hand, rather than typed or word-processed.
- n. The characteristic writing of a particular person.
- n. Text that was written by hand.
- v. present participle of handwrite.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography.
- n. That which is written by hand; manuscript.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the activity of writing by hand
- n. something written by hand
Etymologies
- hand + writing (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Nature's chief masterpiece is _writing well_: very profoundly informs his readers "That what is here said has not the least regard to the _penmanship_, that is, to the fairness or badness of the handwriting," and proceeds throughout a whole page, with a panegyric on a _fine handwriting_!”
“Adding a handwritten signature to letters or even email can add a distinguising, memorable mark to your messages — and in cases like mine, that distinct memory is, “Boy, his handwriting is awful.””
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“Upcoming delights for you: I'm going to hopefully do a voice post (god knows on what topic but I'll think of something) and a handwritten post (to show you all how atrocious my handwriting is these days), and a filmstrip post of Prague photos.”
“She was a nice old lady and she meant well, but as a result of this, I do everything with my left hand except writing, and my handwriting is appalling.”
“The handwriting is on the wall, for the (GOP) Judy Chu is headed to Washington and many more democrats will follow.”
“I had a general sense that in the US, "feminine" handwriting is neater, more loopy, and in its most mockable form has little circles or hearts dotting each letter I.”
“As more people lose writing skills and migrate to the computer, retraining people in handwriting skills could be a useful cognitive exercise.”
“But Angie Pike, Zane's mom, persists, believing that handwriting is a building block to learning.”
“Now for the clever part – thanks to built-in handwriting recognition software, it can then convert your handwriting into editable text – saving hours of writing time for those longhand first drafters.”
“They are grabbing at the golden eggs while they can because the handwriting is on the wall.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘handwriting’.
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Handy Words
List of words and phrases referring to the hand, hands, fist, or derivatives of the Latin manus, beginning with left-handed.
left-handed, double-fisted, fisticuffs, handy, right-handed, two-handed, manual, manumission, manuscript, manually, manustupration, manudiction and 164 more...
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Writing
graphoanalysis, agraphia, agraphic, anorthography, logagraphia, cipher, code, inscribe, penmanship, cursive, Palmer method, calligraphy and 100 more...
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Whatever's at hand
For a more comprehensive list, see Hernesheir's Handy Words.
For trivet's wonderful list of handy compounds, see handie.
hand, hands, handy, handedness, Tristram Shandy, left hand, red-handed, cackhanded, on the other hand, on the one hand, to hand, backhand and 18 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Distinctions that used to be unnecessary
There was a time when these things were your only option...
accoustic guitar, snail mail, day baseball, land-line phone, organic food, free-to-air telev..., black-and-white p..., analog watch, live music, manual transmission, cassette walkman, coca cola classic and 23 more...
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Penmanship
Spencerian method, Palmer method, Platt R. Spencer, cursive, round hand, running hand, handwriting, stylus, pen, vellum, penmanship, script and 86 more...
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Amalgamations
Words that have been smashed together.
keystone, touchstone, footprint, thunderhead, seesaw, textbook, leftovers, watchword, afterbirth, fieldwork, outcast, statesman and 148 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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The Last Werewolf
This novel by Glen Duncan, aside from being a ripping yarn and beautifully written, is just littered with words that I had to look up and discover that often his use of the word not only fitted per...
gurns, bok, chimney breast, dichotomy, Platonic form, filthy, Platonic Form, mathematics, BAM, skirls, clarity, blundering and 298 more...
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kewpid's Words
moleskine, araldite, dessicate, cellar door, grotesque, fallacy, vendetta, raindrop, panacea, ethereal, hircus, treppenwitz and 446 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for handwriting.
Louises Miles of young women's handwriting like barbed wire, the full-time job of self-dramatisation. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
Mar 27, 2012
chained_bear Interesting article about it here. Sep 11, 2009
kewpid Beautiful handwriting makes me squee. Nov 21, 2007