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a. In one's own handwriting; as, an autograph letter; an autograph will. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Autographic. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. 1. Pertaining to an autograph, or one's own handwriting; of the nature of an autograph. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to, or used in, the process of autography; as, autographic ink, paper, or press. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. autographie. ] 1. The science of autographs; a person's own handwriting; an autograph. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A process in lithography by which a writing or drawing is transferred from paper to stone. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol.) The obtaining of a curve similar to a pulse curve or sphygmogram by allowing the blood from a divided artery to strike against a piece of paper.

n. [ Phono- + Gr. a'yto`s self + -graph. ] (Physics) An instrument by means of which a sound can be made to produce a visible trace or record of itself. It consists essentially of a resonant vessel, usually of paraboloidal form, closed at one end by a flexible membrane. A stylus attached to some point of the membrane records the movements of the latter, as it vibrates, upon a moving cylinder or plate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Poly- + autography. ] The act or practice of multiplying copies of one's own handwriting, or of manuscripts, by printing from stone, -- a species of lithography. [ 1913 Webster ]