Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cursive"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cursive \Cur"sive\, n.
1. A character used in cursive writing.
2. A manuscript, especially of the New Testament, written in
small, connected characters or in a running hand; --
opposed to uncial. --Shipley.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cursive \Cur"sive\ (k?r"s?v), a. [LL. cursivus: cf. F. cursif
See {Cursitor}.]
Running; flowing.
{Cursive hand},a running handwriting.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cursive
adj : having successive letter joined together; "cursive script"
n : rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and
cursively connected within words without lifting the
writing implement from the paper [syn: {longhand}, {running
hand}]
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