See Also: Handwriting(medicine)
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HANDWRITING, evidence(law)
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handwriting (iou)



handwriting noun. LME.
[from HAND noun + WRITING noun: cf. Latin manuscriptum, Greek kheirographon.]
Writing by hand with a pen or pencil, esp. as done by a particular person or characteristic of a particular country or historical period; fig. a distinctive, individually identifiable style of doing something, as painting, designing, etc. LME.
J. Mortimer Simcox has got such awful handwriting, he's going to copy it out neatly later. J. T. Story I looked at the page of neat, close-written, feminine handwriting.
That which is written by hand; a written document etc. arch. M16.
A. Radcliffe Adeline took it up, and opening it perceived a hand-writing.
Comb.: handwriting expert a person who studies handwriting in order to detect forgeries etc. or infer aspects of a person's character from his or her style of writing.