Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of the nature of a glyph or ideograph: as, glyphic words.
  • Of or pertaining to a glyph or glyphs; pertaining to carving or sculpture.
  • noun A picture or figure by which a word is implied; a hieroglyphic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Fine Arts) Of or pertaining to sculpture or carving of any sort, esp. to glyphs.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Carved, sculpted.
  • adjective Pertaining to glyphs.
  • noun A glyph.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Ancient Greek γλυϕικός.

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