Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writing-frame for the blind.
- noun An instrument or register which records the presence of watchmen on their beats.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of writing frame for the blind.
- noun An instrument or register which records the presence of watchmen on their beats.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a form of
stylus that helps ablind person towrite
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Examples
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Généresse (1807) and of Bruno, the typhlograph of Passard, Dr. Nord's skotograph, Dr. Woizechowsky's amaurograph, Count de Beaufort's stylograph, Wedgewood's noctograph, and the writing-frames of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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He was nearly blind, and had to teach himself Spanish and look up authorities through the help of others and to write with a noctograph or by amanuenses.
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He was nearly blind, and had to teach himself Spanish and look up authorities through the help of others, and to write with a noctograph or by amanuenses.
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