Crossword clues for letter
letter
- Piece of mail
- Monogram component
- Love __
- Bit of a monogram
- Varsity athlete's honor
- Postal item
- Kind of perfect
- Honor stitched to some jackets
- Envelope contents
- Bit of romantic memorabilia
- Bit of mail
- Athletic honor
- "Wheel of Fortune" guess
- Y or N
- Word with fan or form
- Word with cover or love
- Uncommon writing of late
- Symbol of athletic success
- Scrabble tile, essentially
- Red ____ day
- Postman's charge
- Pi, phi, or psi
- Pen pal's product
- Opposite of "spirit"
- One of four in five
- Mailbox find
- M or N, e.g
- It's not legal
- I for one
- Handwritten rarity, these days
- Envelope insert
- Ef, e.g
- Do calligraphy
- College award for teamwork
- College athlete's prize
- College athlete's award
- Buffalo Tom "Big Red ___ Day"
- Box Tops classic "The ___"
- Both words in each answer to a starred clue begin and end with the same one
- Athletic reward
- Athlete's reward
- Any monogram initial
- An initial, e.g
- Alternative to legal
- Alphabet soup bit
- "Love ___" (2010 R. Kelly album)
- Scholar, male postal worker?
- Scholar, anagram of &hellip
- Words on envelope for unknown landlord? Exactly
- Following every detail
- Jockey let teeth rot: exactly!
- Fraudulent scheme placing restraint on tenant
- Final, formal brushoff for Augustus or Gwen?
- O for a means to disseminate information!
- Play varsity ball
- Item on a high school jacket
- Scrabble unit
- A, B or C, e.g
- An initial, e.g.
- Steno's work
- Envelope's contents, often
- Athletic award
- Beth, for one
- Thorn, once
- E-mail predecessor
- Bit of comic strip text
- With 9-Across, post office mail slot ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme
- Varsity award
- See 29-Across
- Athletic recognition
- Something sent to Santa
- Renter from a renter
- An award earned by participation in a school sport
- Owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire
- The conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
- A written message addressed to a person or organization
- A strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention)
- Varsity member's prize
- Missive
- A, e.g.
- Prynne's was scarlet
- Stepquote source: 1900
- Poe's was "purloined"
- Item to be posted
- See 16, 25, 42 or 55 Across
- Ef, e.g.
- R, F or D
- Message Q?
- Mailbox item
- Communication from landlord
- Character penned communication
- One giving permission, I say?
- Written communication
- Written character
- For example, a landlady
- A or B?
- Alphabetic symbol
- Latvian ruler's character
- Alphabetic character
- Alphabet part
- Permissive character?
- Perhaps I could be a permissive sort?
- Item sent - character
- Today it's Hob 50, written for special character
- Script unit
- I, for one
- A, e.g
- A, B or C, for example
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Attorney \At*tor"ney\, n.; pl. Attorneys. [OE. aturneye, OF. atorn['e], p. p. of atorner: cf. LL. atturnatus, attornatus, fr. attornare. See Attorn.]
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A substitute; a proxy; an agent. [Obs.]
And will have no attorney but myself.
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(Law)
One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact.
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A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at law.
Note: An attorney is either public or private. A private attorney, or an attorney in fact, is a person appointed by another, by a letter or power of attorney, to transact any business for him out of court; but in a more extended sense, this class includes any agent employed in any business, or to do any act in pais, for another. A public attorney, or attorney at law, is a practitioner in a court of law, legally qualified to prosecute and defend actions in such court, on the retainer of clients.
--Bouvier. -- The attorney at law answers to the procurator of the civilians, to the solicitor in chancery, and to the proctor in the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts, and all of these are comprehended under the more general term lawyer. In Great Britain and in some states of the United States, attorneys are distinguished from counselors in that the business of the former is to carry on the practical and formal parts of the suit. In many states of the United States however, no such distinction exists. In England, since 1873, attorneys at law are by statute called solicitors.A power, letter, or warrant, of attorney, a written authority from one person empowering another to transact business for him.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "graphic symbol, alphabetic sign, written character," from Old French letre (10c., Modern French lettre) "character, letter; missive, note," in plural, "literature, writing, learning," from Latin littera (also litera) "letter of the alphabet," of uncertain origin, perhaps via Etruscan from Greek diphthera "tablet," with change of d- to l- as in lachrymose. In this sense it replaced Old English bocstæf, literally "book staff" (compare German Buchstabe "letter, character," from Old High German buohstab, from Proto-Germanic *bok-staba-m).\n
\nLatin littera also meant "a writing, document, record," and in \nplural litteræ "a letter, epistle," a sense first attested in English early 13c., replacing Old English ærendgewrit, literally "errand-writing." The Latin plural also meant "literature, books," and figuratively "learning, liberal education, schooling" (see letters). School letter in sports, attested by 1908, were said to have been first awarded by University of Chicago football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg. Expression to the letter "precisely" is from 1520s (earlier as after the letter). Letter-perfect is from 1845, originally in theater jargon, in reference to an actor knowing the lines exactly. Letter-press, in reference to matter printed from relief surfaces, is from 1840.
"one who lets" in any sense, c.1400, agent noun from let (v.).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A symbol in an alphabet. 2 A written or printed communication, generally longer and more formal than a note. vb. 1 (context transitive English) to print, inscribe, or paint letters on something. 2 (context intransitive US scholastic English) To earn a varsity letter (award). Etymology 2
n. 1 One who lets, or let out. 2 (context archaic English) One who retards or hinders.
WordNet
n. a written message addressed to a person or organization; "mailed an indignant letter to the editor" [syn: missive]
the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters" [syn: letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character]
a strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention); "he followed instructions to the letter"; "he obeyed the letter of the law"
an award earned by participation in a school sport; "he won letters in three sports" [syn: varsity letter]
owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire
v. win an athletic letter
set down or print with letters
mark letters on or mark with letters
Wikipedia
A letter is a written message from one party to another containing information. Letters promote the preservation of communication between both parties; they may bring friends or relatives closer together, enrich professional relationships and provide a means of self-expression. Letters contribute to the protection and conservation of literacy. Letters have been sent since antiquity and are mentioned in the Iliad. Works by both Herodotus and Thucydides also mention letters.
Letter, letters, or literature may refer to:
Letter or US Letter is a paper size commonly used as home or office stationery in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. It measures . US Letter size paper is a standard defined by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), in contrast to the A4 paper used by other nations, which is defined by the International Organization for Standardization (specifically, in ISO 216).
Ronald Reagan made this the paper size for U.S. federal forms in the early 1980s; previously, the smaller "official" Government letter size, , was used.
In the U.S., paper density is usually measured in "pounds per ream" (of 500 sheets). Typical letter paper has a basis weight of – the weight of 500 sheets (a ream) of paper at and at 50% humidity. One ream of 20-pound letter-sized paper weighs , and a single letter-sized sheet of 20-pound paper weighs , which is equivalent to 75.19 g/m. Some metric information is typically included on American ream packaging, 20 pound paper is also labeled as 75 g/m. The most common density of A4 paper is 80 g/m.
The precise origins of the dimensions of US letter size paper (8.5 × 11 in) are not known. The American Forest & Paper Association says that the standard US dimensions have their origin in the days of manual paper making, the 11" length of the standard paper being about a quarter of "the average maximum stretch of an experienced vatman's arms." The letter size falls within the range of the historical quarto size, which since pre modern times refers to page sizes of wide and high, and it is indeed almost exactly one quarter of the old Imperial (British) paper size known as Demy 4to (17½"×22½"), allowing ½" for trimming.
The related paper size known as half letter, statement, or organizer L is exactly one half of the US letter size (8.5 × 5.5 in).
A letter is a grapheme (written character) in an alphabetic system of writing, such as the Greek alphabet and its descendants. Letters also appear in abjads and abugidas (variants of alphabets in which vowel marking is secondary or absent). Letters broadly denote phonemes in the spoken form of the language, although there is rarely a consistent exact correspondence between letters and phonemes.
Written signs in other writing systems are best called syllabograms (which denote a syllable) or logograms (which denote a word or phrase).
Usage examples of "letter".
But time had worked its curative powers, and soon the letters were abrim with exciting events of this richest court in all the Middle Kingdoms, as well as with pride of new skills mastered.
McIntyre contends that Turnbull forged the letter and stole the securities, then fearing his guilt would become known, committed still another crime - that of suicide, he could have swallowed a dose of aconitine while at the police court.
Shebbeare, a public writer, who, in a series of printed letters to the people of England, had animadverted on the conduct of the ministry in the most acrimonious terms, stigmatized some great names with all the virulence of censure, and even assaulted the throne itself with oblique insinuation and ironical satire.
Bernard, and Return to Parma--A Letter from Hensiette--My Despair De La Haye Becomes Attached to Me--Unpleasant Adventure with an Actress and Its Consequences--I Turn a Thorough Bigot--Bavois--I Mystify a Bragging Officer.
These being considered, the house ordered the lords of the admiralty to produce the other memorials of the same kind which they had received, that they might be laid before the congress at Soissons: then they addressed his majesty for copies of all the letters and instructions which had been sent to admiral Hosier, and those who succeeded him in the command of the West-India squadron.
At first Mr Passant, the post-master, made some difficulties but at last he consented and to my surprise he handed me, in addition to a letter for my mother, one addressed to Bissett.
Meanwhile James addressed a letter to several lords who had been formerly members of his council, as well as to divers ladies of quality and distinction, intimating the pregnancy of his queen, and requiring them to attend as witnesses at the labour.
I dare say if those letters had ever reached their addressees, some of them would have been every bit as astonished as Lubov was and just about as likely to welcome their assignments.
This letter is for the Lord Adelantado also, that he may see how Amerigo Vespucci can be useful, and advise him about it.
Monsieur Tourrier showed the letter that he had received from his cousin, the adjoint at Arthenay.
On returning from the review, Kutuzov took the Austrian general into his private room and, calling his adjutant, asked for some papers relating to the condition of the troops on their arrival, and the letters that had come from the Archduke Ferdinand, who was in command of the advanced army.
June, 1896, great stress was laid on the fact of the difference in the admixture of inks found on letters contemporaneous with the date of the will, and it was asserted also that the ink with which the will was written was not in existence at the time it was alleged to have been made, June 14, 1873, and probably not earlier than ten years later.
Without depending on prayers or miracles, he boldly armed against the public enemy, and his pastoral letters admonished the Italians of their danger and their duty.
This letter, however, gives the adolescent power over a proud and otherwise inaccessible adult woman, whom both he and his father are in love with.
But you can depend on my word that you will not know it until you have written me a very long letter begging me very humbly to indicate the place where the divine letter of the adorable object of your vows has gone.