† short-writing Obs.
= shorthand.
| 1620 W. Folkingham Brachigr. To Rdr. A 4, Applying my Letters to those formes of Short-writing, which intimate regionarie Vowels by contiguitie of Consonants. 1650 Shelton (title) Zeiglographia or A New art of Short-writing never before published. 1691 Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 269 His most dextrous and incomparable faculty in short-writing. 1715 S. Lane (title) The Art of Short Writing made lineal and legible as the Common long Hand. |