Shorthand; = character, n. 3c.

= shorthand, n. 1. Cf. character, n. 3c. Now historical.

The art or practice of writing with abbreviations or with abbreviated characters; shorthand, stenography. Also attributive. Obsolete except as a…

The art of writing in shorthand.

In plural = shorthand, n. Cf. earlier charactery, n. 1a. Obsolete.

= shorthand, n. adj.

A method of speedy writing by means of the substitution of contractions or arbitrary signs or symbols for letters, words, etc.; brachygraphy…

‘The art or practice of quick writing’ (Johnson); variously applied to shorthand, and (in palæography) to cursive as distinguished from angular…

U.S. = stenography, n.