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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Handwriting \Hand"writ'ing\ (-r[imac]t"[i^]ng), noun
1. The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography.
2. That which is written by hand; manuscript.
{The handwriting on the wall}, a doom pronounced; an omen of disaster. --Dan. v. 5.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
handwriting
noun
1: something written by hand; "she recognized his handwriting"; "his hand was illegible" [syn: {hand}, {script}]
2: the activity of writing by hand; "handwriting can be slow and painful for one with arthritis"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "handwriting": autography, calligraphy, chirography, fist, graphanalysis, graphology, graphometry, hand, longhand, manuscript, paleography, pencraft, penmanship, penscript, script, scription, scrive, stylography
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Handwriting (Col. 2:14). The "blotting out the handwriting" is the removal by the grace of the gospel of the condemnation of the law which we had broken.
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