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Definition of Glyphs

1. glyph [n] - See also: glyph

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glyphs

Literary usage of Glyphs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lienzo of Tulancingo, Oaxaca: an Introductory Study of a Ninth Painted Sheet by Ross Parmenter (2007)
"Is there a possibility that the disparate glyphs, using different symbols and featuring different dates, don't represent the same place after all? ..."

2. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1910)
"The creatures pictured in the codices are often accompanied by their glyphs which appear in the Enes of signs directly above. In many eases, the animal ..."

3. Memoirs by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1903)
"Human side : thirty-five glyphs as a base; two warriors of high rank standing opposite one another; twenty glyphs on the background. ..."

4. American Antiquities, and Discoveries in the West: Being an Exhibition of by Josiah Priest (1833)
"[The characters here presented are the glyphs alluded to by this author, formed from the combinations of ... For an account of those glyphs, see pages 122, ..."

5. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1897)
"2nd — The number and the percentage of the whole number of glyphs having numeral ... 8th — The total number of occurrences of the various classified glyphs. ..."

6. American Antiquities, and Discoveries in the West: Being an Exhibition of by Josiah Priest (1833)
"[The characters here presented are the glyphs alluded to by this author, formed from the combinations of the ..."

7. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1897)
"The percentage of the whole numeral of perfect glyphs having number prefixes is 31 ... The total results are as follows : Total number of glyphs in the five ..."

8. Ancient Civilizations of Mexico and Central America by Herbert Joseph Spinden (1922)
"In most cases these are the faces of gods. Reading from left to right: the values are 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10. Fig. 39. The Normal Forms of the Period glyphs. ..."

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