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Script

noun

A written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance. Synonyms: book, playscript.

Something written by hand. Synonyms: hand, handwriting. "His hand was illegible"

A particular orthography or writing system.

verb

Write a script for.

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... and of the advantages men derive from it. Cadmus brings the letters of the alphabet from the east to Greece, for the same reason that in ancient Maya myth Itzamna, "son of the mother of the morning," brought the hieroglyphs of the Maya script also from the east to Yucatan—because both represent the light by which ...

— American Hero-Myths - A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent • Daniel G. Brinton

... something. For there were some chests hidden away, and prizing these open, we discovered great books of yellow parchment, so old and so sodden that they fell to pieces as soon as one touched them. They were in some Mongol or Manchu script. They, too, were centuries old. But there was something else—a great discovery. Beneath the books we found helmets, inlaid with silver and gold and embellished with black velvet trappings studded with little iron ...

— Indiscreet Letters From Peking • B. L. Putman Weale

... During the first month of his new life an extraordinary event disturbed his placid tranquillity. A letter came; an envelope bearing the mark of one of the cafes in the Borne and a few lines in large, crude script. It was Toni Clapes who had written. He wished him much joy in his new existence. In Palma everything was as usual. Pablo Vails did not write because he was angry with Febrer for going away without bidding him good-bye. Still he was a good friend, and he was busy disentangling Jaime's business affairs. ...

— The Dead Command - From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... at the outer door; Hinge marched off to answer it, returning with a large visiting-card edged with a line of mourning. He presented this to me, and I read the words "Count Ruffiano," printed very badly in blunt script type. ...

— In Direst Peril • David Christie Murray

... her chair in graceful quietude, was to him like a script in an unknown language, or even more simply mysterious, like any writing to the illiterate. As far as women went he was altogether uninstructed and he had not the gift of intuition which is fostered in the days of youth by dreams and visions, exercises of the heart fitting it for the ...

— Victory • Joseph Conrad

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