noctographn.

Brit.

/ˈnɒktəɡrɑːf/,

/ˈnɒktəɡraf/, U.S.

/ˈnɑktəˌɡræf/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: nocti- comb. form, -o- connective, -graph comb. form.

Etymology: < nocti- comb. form + -o- connective + -graph comb. form. Compare French nyctographe machine enabling the blind to write or the sighted to write in the dark (see nyctograph n.). Compare also later nyctograph n.

A kind of writing-frame for a blind or partially-sighted person (see quots. 1864, 2001).Invented by Ralph Wedgwood. Best known because of its use by the American historian William H. Prescott (1796–1859).

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > guide for blind or partially-sighted writers

chiragon1832

writing-frame1848

cecograph1851

noctograph1864

typhlograph1891

1864 G. Ticknor Life William Hickling Prescott 134 This framework of wires is folded down upon a sheet of paper thoroughly impregnated with a black substance... The whole apparatus is called a noctograph.

1952 E. B. Garside tr. C. W. Ceram Gods, Graves, & Scholars iv. xxiii. 351 Prescott was bent over a special writing-frame made for the blind and near-blind, the so-called noctograph, invented by a certain Wedgewood.

2001 Business World (Philippines) (Nexis) 15 Jan. 4 For writing he [sc. Prescott] had a ‘noctograph’ or a frame with brass wires stretched across it and holding a piece of carbon paper.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	noctograph
释义	noctographn. Brit. /ˈnɒktəɡrɑːf/, /ˈnɒktəɡraf/, U.S. /ˈnɑktəˌɡræf/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: nocti- comb. form, -o- connective, -graph comb. form. Etymology: < nocti- comb. form + -o- connective + -graph comb. form. Compare French nyctographe machine enabling the blind to write or the sighted to write in the dark (see nyctograph n.). Compare also later nyctograph n. A kind of writing-frame for a blind or partially-sighted person (see quots. 1864, 2001).Invented by Ralph Wedgwood. Best known because of its use by the American historian William H. Prescott (1796–1859). ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > guide for blind or partially-sighted writers chiragon1832 writing-frame1848 cecograph1851 noctograph1864 typhlograph1891 1864 G. Ticknor Life William Hickling Prescott 134 This framework of wires is folded down upon a sheet of paper thoroughly impregnated with a black substance... The whole apparatus is called a noctograph. 1952 E. B. Garside tr. C. W. Ceram Gods, Graves, & Scholars iv. xxiii. 351 Prescott was bent over a special writing-frame made for the blind and near-blind, the so-called noctograph, invented by a certain Wedgewood. 2001 Business World (Philippines) (Nexis) 15 Jan. 4 For writing he [sc. Prescott] had a ‘noctograph’ or a frame with brass wires stretched across it and holding a piece of carbon paper. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1864
随便看	to take to matrimony to take to memory to take to mercy to take to one side to take to one's bed to take to one's bosom to take to one's feet to take to one's fere or unto one's fere to take to one's foot to take to one's heart to take to one's heels to take to one's legs to take to one's parable to take to one's scrapers to take to or hit the silk to take to pieces to take to pledge to steer small to stem back to stem one's course to stencil out to step and to step aside to step astray, awry, beside to step back