Hieroglyph
[haiәrәglif]
Definition
(noun.) a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt.
(noun.) writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible).
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Definition
(a.) Alt. of Hieroglyphic
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Hieroglyphs seen in a dream, foretells that wavering judgment in some vital matter may cause you great distress and money loss. To be able to read them, your success in overcoming some evil is foretold.
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Examples
- Moreove r, they worked simple equations involving one unknown, and had a hieroglyph for a million (the drawing of a man overcome with wonder), and another for ten million. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Finally comes one of Tycho's hunting dogs--very faithful and sagacious; he serves here as a hieroglyph of his master's nobility as well as of sagacity and fidelity. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Did not an immortal physicist and interpreter of hieroglyphs write detestable verses? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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